There are three main issues in defining
a utility regulator's role: the scope of its coverage,
its role in relation to ministers, and its role in relation
to other regulatory...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17223Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Smith,Warrick P.
The design of a regulatory agency's
decision making structure encompasses issues relating to the
number of decision makers, the basis for selecting them, the
role played...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17421Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Smith,Warrick P.
The more risk and responsibility a
government hands over to the private sector in water and
sanitation, the more powerful the incentives for better
performance-but also...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17318Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Brook Cowen, Penelope J.
Mexico's private toll road program
more than doubled the national toll road network from 1989
to 1994. The investment of approximately US$13 billion in
the program was...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17083Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Ruster,Jeff E.
The electricity supply industry in
England and Wales was under public ownership from 1948 to
1990. For most of this period, the Central Electricity
Generating Board...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17080Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Newbery,David M. ;
Pollitt,Michael Gerald
This note compares the effects of price
cap and rate-of-return regulation on the risk borne by
regulated utilities. It present evidence that price cap
regulation subjects...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16876Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Alexander,Ian ;
Irwin,Timothy C.
One of the most important policy
questions in the transition economies is what governments
can do to speed the restructuring of firms and thus hasten
the transition...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16986Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Pohl,Gerhard ;
Claessons, Stijn ;
Anderson,Robert E. ;
Djankov,Simeon
In February 1997, sixty-nine governments
of high-income and developing countries agreed to liberalize
their basic telecommunications services under an agreement
negotiated...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17127Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Braga,Carlos Alberto Primo
In most countries, telecommunications
regulators no longer regulate a static, monopolistic
industry that provides essentially a single product,
telephone service, but...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17383Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Smith, Peter
The author explains the drivers of the
information revolution - the decline in the cost of
transmitting information, the increase in the power of
computing, and the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17125Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Bond,James P.
The author looks at how the drivers of
the information revolution are transforming the structure of
the telecommunications industry. The end of natural
monopoly, the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17126Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Bond,James P.
The authors look at the rise of the
Internet as the main application behind the emerging global
information infrastructure. Many now believe that the
Internet provides...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17384Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Braga,Carlos Alberto Primo ;
Fink,Carsten
Do the timing and type of auction affect
the sale price? What kind of restructuring is worth doing
before privatization? The author examines how much these and
other...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16873Date: June 30, 1997Author:
Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio
Critics of privatization often argue
that its benefits come at a high cost to society. The
authors test the validity of this criticism for
Mexico's privatization program,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16874Date: June 30, 1997Author:
La Porta,Rafael ;
Lopez-De-Silanes,Florencio
The Czech voucher privatization scheme,
which started in 1991, was one of the earliest, most
comprehensive, and most rapidly implemented of all the mass
privatization...
This note argues that many of the
problems that have plagued highway privatization stem from
the combined effects of special features of the highway
business and the...
Like the model adopted by many Asian
countries, the Colombian approach to private participation
in infrastructure aims to attract project financing for new
facilities,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16871Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Gray,Philip D.
As in many aspects of infrastructure
reform, Argentina has been a leader in experimenting with
the design of regulatory agencies. This note describes the
essential elements...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16898Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Estache,Antonio
In 1989, the United Kingdom embarked on
one of the first modern privatizations in the water sector,
selling assets under license and setting up an independent
economic...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16872Date: May 31, 1997Author:
Van Den Berg,Caroline
Investment funds play a key role in mass
privatization in many transition economies. But have they
lived up to expectations? The authors look at that question
in the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16888Date: April 30, 1997Author:
Pistor, Katharina ;
Spicer, Andrew
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