Download or read book Successes and Failures in Regulating and Deregulating Utilities written by Colin Robinson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the latest annual review of utility regulation and deregulation, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School

Download or read book Understanding Regulation written by Robert Baldwin and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2012 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the practical and theoretical issues that are central to the study of regulation, which a particular focus on contested areas and how they are dealt with.

Download or read book Law and the Regulators written by Tony Prosser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will, for the first time, offer a comprehensive analysis of the legal duties which apply to the regulators of privatized industries, transport, civil aviation and independent television in the United Kingdom, with detailed accounts of how these duties have been put into practice bythe regulators. There is an assessment of the philosophy behind these principles, and an account of the principles which can be derived from the law of the European Union, which are relevant to regulators' work. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction of the encouragement of competition,the encouragement of economic efficiency and the implementation of social goals such as the provision of universal public service, and the way in which these various principles interact.

Download or read book Integrated Transport Policy written by John Preston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. With an emphasis on land-based passenger transport - particularly rail and road - this collection assesses the implications for regulation and competition of integrated transport policies. Contributions to the volume trace the evolution of transport policy, focus on the pricing of infrastructure, examine the effectiveness of competition and the adequacy of the regulatory framework in the United Kingdom.

Download or read book Opening Networks to Competition written by David Gabel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gabel and David F. Weiman The chapters in this volwne address the related problems of regulating and pricing access in network industries. Interconnection between network suppliers raises the important policy questions of how to sustain competition and realize economic efficiency. To foster rivalry in any industry, suppliers must have access to customers. But unlike in other sectors, the very organization of network industries creates major impediments to potential entrants trying to carve out a niche in the market. In traditional sectors such as gas, electric, rail, and telephone services, these barriers take the form of the large private and social costs necessary to duplicate the physical infrastructure of pipelines, wires, or tracks. Few firms can afford to finance such an undertaking, because the level of sunk costs and the very large scale economies make it extremely risky. In other newer sectors, entrants face less tangible but no less pressing constraints. In the microcomputer industry, for example, high switching costs can prevent users from experimenting with alternative, but perhaps more efficient hardware platforms or operating systems. Although gateway technologies can reduce these barriers, the installed base of an incumbent can create powerful bandwagon effects that reinforce its advantage (such as the greater availability of compatible peripherals and software applications). In the era of electronic banking, entrants into the automated teller machine· (A TM) and credit card markets face a similar problem of establishing a ubiquitous presence.

Download or read book The Official History of Privatisation Vol II written by David Parker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-19 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume II of Professor Parker's authoritative Official History of Privatisation, covering the period from the re-election of Margaret Thatcher in 1987 to the election of Tony Blair in 1997. Volume II considers in detail several of the major privatisations, including those of airports, steel, water, electricity, coal and the railways, as well as a number of smaller ones. Each privatisation involved major challenges in terms of industrial restructuring, organising successful sales and, in a number of cases, establishing effective regulatory regimes. The policy evolved and new methods of selling and regulating were put in place that enabled further disposals to occur. Monolithic nationalised industries with their emphasis on the benefits of economies of scale, vertical integration and rationalisation, were replaced by industrial structures rooted in the importance of commercial management, risk taking and competition. In government departments and parts of the National Health Service, direct employees were replaced by private contractors, and private investment became a characteristic of public infrastructure in the form of PFI/PPP schemes. This study draws heavily on the official records of the British government, to which the author was given full access and on interviews with the leading figures involved in each of the privatisations, including ex-ministers, civil servants, business and City figures, as well as academics that have studied the subject. This book will of great interest to students of privatisation, British political history and of business and economics in general.

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Download or read book On Different Tracks written by Martin Lodge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The governments of several countries are in the process of reforming their regulatory regimes for the railways, and there is much debate about the appropriate regulation of transport in general and railways in particular—especially in light of environmental concerns about traffic congestion and air pollution and economic concerns about the financing of infrastructure and services. This volume investigates how Britain and Germany regulated their railways at three different points in time over the past century: after the First World War, after the Second World War, and in the 1990s. Its central focus is the design of regulatory regimes and the impact of institutional factors on the selection of design ideas and on processes of isomorphism. By placing a comparative analysis of regulatory design in a historical context and an institutional framework, the author contributes to the current debate on the emergence of the regulatory state in the late 20th century.

Download or read book Recent Developments in Transport Economics written by Ginés de Rus and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work surveys recent developments in transport economics by international experts. Contemporary issues and recent developments, such as deregulation and privatisation, are discussed alongside more traditional transport projects and policies.

Download or read book Railway Reform Regulation of Freight Transport Markets written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the form regulation should take in rail freight markets to promote efficiency in railways and the wider economy.

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Download or read book ECMT Round Tables The Separation of Operations from Infrastructure in the Provision of Railway Services Report of the One Hundred and Third Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 13 14 June 1996 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1997-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication provides readers with a comprehensive overview of separation of operations from infrastructure for the restructuring of European railways.

Download or read book World Transport Research Transport policy written by David A. Hensher and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third of a four-volume set of conference proceedings. This one covers transport policy, with 47 papers on the themes of transport and land use planning, evaluation, sustainability and the environment, modal specific policy and Asia-Pacific policy.

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