The paper considers price trends as signals for the evaluation of reforms leading to ownership or market structure changes in public services. In order to do so, we focus on a specific example: electricity prices in four countries, namely UK, France, Germany and Italy.We consider that these...

Being able to monitor and asses technological developments represents an essential activity for an industry expected to be increasingly active in all of the regions of the world and in markets which require a wide array of differing technological configurations. This paper outlines the...

The quality of electricity supply depends, among others aspects, on the transmission and distribution networks for energy flows required to deal with the increasing demand by Spanish consumers. However, the modernization and expansion of such a function requires appropriate investments. In this...

The aim of this paper is to analyse descriptively, through Porter's theory of national competitive advantages, if and how differences between home-countries of European electric firms affected, quantitatively and/or qualitatively, their diversification strategies after liberalisation. I...

A stochastic frontier cost function is estimated using panel data for the electricity generating industry in India. The impact of distributional and functional form assumptions on technical inefficiency and the sources of inefficiency are investigated by using maximum likelihood, GLS and...

The standard electricity industry reform paradigm in several EU countries since the 1990s includes privatization, unbundling, liberalization. While the implementation and design of reforms widely differs across the EU, the European Commission insists on a rather unified approach, aiming at the...

Over the last decades, the structure of the European Union (EU) electricity sector has witnessed fundamental reform due to the increased complexity in interactions of political, economic and technological forces. The way electricity industry is structured is gradually evolving from vertically...

The electric power industry reform act in the Philippines has for its main objective the introduction of competition and effective regulation to reduce costs of electric power at retail. Background of high electricity costs is linked to the politics of energy and the structural problems that...

The Asian financial crisis has impaired the flow of capital financing the construction of infrastructure crucial for sustaining development in the country. As such, one of the post-crisis challenges has been the development of new and alternative financing mechanisms in light of emerging fiscal...