French Abstract: Le manque d’infrastructures de qualité en Afrique est largement reconnu dans la littérature, et ce déficit contraint sévèrement la compétitivité et l’intégration régionale dans le continent. Malgré une augmentation régulière des investissements infrastructurels...

Through the end of the twentieth century, the most critical regulatory issue facing electric utilities was stranded costs, which can be defined as those costs that the utilities were permitted to recover through their rates but whose recovery may have been impeded or prevented by the advent of...

In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets, explaining the evolution of competitive constraints when consumers are introduced to supplier choice for the first time. In the context of rising real energy prices for consumers, and...

This article addresses the implications of retail competition in public utility industries, particularly electricity, for utility service obligations. After tracing the history of the common law duty to serve applicable to public utilities, the efficiency of utility service obligations in the...

We assembled a database consisting of fifty-two regulatory decisions, spanning two hundred and fifty-four annual observations, made by seven different regulators and across five different industries. For each of these observations, we construct a variable that represents the proportion of the...

As my contribution to a symposium, I was asked to identify and to discuss conflicts between environmental regulation and pursuit of the goals of national energy policy. I identify three contexts in which I see clear conflicts between environmental regulation and energy policy - gasoline...

Global warming and the acute domestic air pollution in China have necessitated transition to a sustainable energy system away from coal-dominated energy production. Through a systematic review of the national policy documents, this study investigates the policy mix adopted by the Chinese...

Much of the BoP literature has focused on rural settings, yet urban poverty is rapidly growing in scale and importance. The urban poor in developing countries inhabit informal settlements characterized by significant institutional voids. This paper examines the strategies used to address these...

A recurring issue in the regulation of public utilities is whether the firm should be permitted to recover the cost of particular assets through its allowed rates. The traditional standards have been the backward-looking prudency test and the forward-looking used-and-useful test. Under the...

This paper analyses the foundations of efficient-firm regulation (implemented in Chile for almost two decades), and the formulas that are used to set the prices of water/sanitation companies, electric power distributors and the dominant phone companies. We show that efficient-firm regulation...