Regulating infrastructure : monopoly, contracts, and discretion /
This book addresses a vexing question about privatization: how can government fairly and effectively regulate "natural monopolies"--infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical? Gómez-Ibáñez draws on history, politics, and a wealth of examples to prov...
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
2003
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| Vydání: | 1st edition |
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Regulating Infrastructure |
Obsah:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Monopoly as a Contracting Problem
- Chapter 2. The Choice of Regulatory Strategy
- Part I. Regulatory Politics and Dynamics
- Chapter 3. The Behavior of Regulatory Agencies
- Chapter 4. Capture and Instability: Sri Lanka's Buses and U.S. Telephones
- Chapter 5. Incompleteness and Its Consequences: Argentina's Railroads
- Chapter 6. Forestalling Expropriation: Electricity in the Americas
- Part II. Contract versus Discretionary Regulation
- Chapter 7. The Evolution of Concession Contracts: Municipal Franchises in North America
- Chapter 8. The Rediscovery of Private Contracts: U.S. Railroad and Airline Deregulation
- Chapter 9. Price-Cap Regulation: The British Water Industry
- Part III. Vertical Unbundling and Regulation
- Chapter 10. The Trade-off in Unbundling: Competition versus Coordination
- Chapter 11. Regulating Coordination: British Railroads
- Chapter 12. Designing Capacity Markets: Electricity in Argentina
- Chapter 13. The Prospects for Unbundling
- Chapter 14. The Future of Regulation
- Notes
- Index.