In this paper we examine the emergence over the last two decades in the EU of a dominant policy paradigm on the reform of network industries. We consider the broad recommendations by the OECD and the European Commission, and the Directives adopted by the European Union on the reform of some...

While most economists usually believe that privatization policy is socially beneficial, it faces increasing opposition in several countries. In this paper we wish to discover the ingredients in a recipe for privatization discontent. To do so we focus on Latin America, where there is wide...

The paper shows that privatisation can contribute to the decrease of net public debt, but at the same time can decrease the Public Sector Net Worth. This is defined as the difference between public sector assets and liabilities. The UK in the 1980s and 1990s is an example of parallelism between...

This papers discusses the privatization of Telecom Italia over ten years, from divestiture to three subsequent changes of ownership control. Why has the governance of one of the most promising of the former nationalized industries been so unstable? The turn of events suggests that the evolution...

Secondo Laffont (2005), in presenza di agenda privata dei politici, ed in particolare di corruzione, con regolatori a loro volta corrompibili e ispezioni costose, i governi dei PVS hanno una funzione non lineare di reazione verso la privatizzazione, a forma di U rovesciata, dipendente dal grado...

Starting from an industry where production is provided by a public monopolist, we look at the effects on the consumers' surplus of a sequence of reforms in network industry. Using a simple comparative statics framework, we find indifference conditions in consumers' surplus between respectively...