paper ends in 1980 after which competition and efficiency dominated infrastructure regulation. Since 2005, there has been a …This paper discusses the role of affordability in the development of economic regulation from the emergence of railway … regulation in the 1840-60 period. It also covers the regulatory responses to the development of network telecoms, electricity and …

Infrastructure regulation has faced transitions not just in recent years, but also throughout much its existence over …. Along with affecting infrastructure, the global financial crisis may itself be a network effect. This paper was presented as …

In many countries, infrastructure liberalization progressed faster than the privatization of former state monopolies …, it probes whether the combination of government ownership and regulation helps overcome some of the shortcomings of the … regulation of private firms. Although we find hints of tensions between state ownership and government regulation, we do not find …

, political, and governance variables to assess the determinants of private financing of infrastructure in emerging markets and … developing economies. Controlling for economic characteristics, we find that overall private participation of infrastructure … infrastructure. Our results do not vary when controlling for income inequality and across quartiles of experience, country wealth …

, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in “black” areas, where several independent infrastructure … new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive …

regulation in various sectors of physical infrastructure including electricity, telecom, water and sewage, transportation and …

performance of regulation, an issue that has recently occupied much of the policy debate on the effectiveness of infrastructure … processes, the authors investigate, for the case of telecommunications, its impact on the performance of regulation in two time … some well documented results on the positive role of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries, the authors …