El objetivo de este trabajo es reseñar las teorías económicas que sirven de sustento a las recomendaciones de política respecto de la propiedad y la regulación de los servicios de infraestructura, y tratar de combinarlas a fin de poder evaluar las ventajas y desventajas de los distintos...

We construct a comprehensive panel data of 96 publicly traded European utilities over the period 1994-2005 in order to study the relationship between the capital structure of regulated firms, regulated prices, and investments, and examine if and how this interaction is affected by ownership...

Congress recently has passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which leaves most elements of the current postal regulatory framework (postal monopoly, state owned enterprise) unaltered. Similar regulatory frameworks have been established in the U.S. and the European Community....