Download or read book International Handbook of Network Industries written by Matthias Finger and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To learn about how economic and institutional forces have shaped the network industries and policies towards them, read the first part of the book. To discover their impacts on particular industries, read the second part. And to find out what has happened in particular countries, read the third part. I think anyone interested in network industries should read all of it! The book's structure allows for many interesting comparisons across countries and sectors.' Richard Green, University of Birmingham, UK 'This is a very useful and comprehensive guide to reforms in network industries in communications, energy, transport and water. It is organized by generic topic, sector and region. Its authors are acknowledged experts. I am confident that this Handbook will be a widely read and valuable resource for many years.' Martin Cave, London School of Economics, UK 'Quite an accomplishment, this Handbook provides by far the most comprehensive overview of the role of the private sector and competition in infrastructure industries, with thoughtful surveys of each of the major infrastructure sectors and of the key regions and countries.' José Gómez-Ibáñez, Harvard University, US In recent decades, all infrastructures have undergone significant restructuring. This worldwide phenomenon is often labelled 'liberalization' and although expectations were high with respect to lower prices, greater efficiency and innovation, the expected gains have not always been fully realized. This extensive, state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various experiences of liberalization across different sectors, regions and disciplines. The multidisciplinary approach focuses on the economic, political and institutional aspects of liberalization as well as, to a lesser extent, on technological issues. As such, it constitutes a unique contribution, as this broad overview is often lost in the sector specific, country-focused and purely disciplinary approaches prevalent in the current literature. Sectors explored include telecoms, the Internet, energy and transport, whilst the truly global perspective incorporates unique case studies from an array of developed and developing countries including the US, China, India and the EU. The International Handbook of Network Industries will become the definitive volume for academics researchers and students of economics, political science and law interested in infrastructure regulation. It will also prove a valuable guide to practitioners and policy-makers involved in liberalization and competition.

Download or read book The Reform of Network Industries written by Massimo Florio and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Network industries such as electricity, gas, rail, local public transport, telecommunications and postal services are recognised by the EU as crucial for fostering European social and territorial cohesion. Providing an overview of key policy reforms in these industries and an empirical evaluation, this thought-provoking book offers a critical perspective on the functioning of the networks that provide vital services to EU citizens.

Download or read book Liberalizations in Network Industries written by Antonio Nicita and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the wave of liberalization reforms experienced by OECD network industries. Focusing on the telecommunications sector, the authors analyze the latest data available on liberalization and privatization, and following a political economics approach, they integrate standard economic analysis with the most recent studies of the political determinants of market-oriented policies. The book presents new econometric evidence on several policy issues, including institutional complementarities dynamics, the problem of policy sequencing and the role of government political ideology. The detailed and comprehensive discussion offers insights into how so many countries adopting similar reforms actually differ in their policy “bundling”, intensity and implementation of liberalization and privatization.

Download or read book Liberalisation of Network Industries written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Competition Policy in Network Industries written by Frank Fichert and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promotion of competition in Europe's network industries has been in the foreground of economic policy in recent years. Network industries have undergone dramatic changes, involving privatisation, liberalisation and de- as well as re-regulation. But there are still many unresolved problems in both economic policy as well as economic research. Hence, a vivid exchange between academics and policy makers has emerged to find the optimal framework for these industries. This volume contributes to this discussion, containing several papers on various network industries.

Download or read book European Economy No 4 1999 Liberalisation of Network Industries written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Liberalisation in a World of Second Best written by Mehmet Ugur and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article reports mixed results about the impacts of liberalisation in European network industries. Telecommunications prices have fallen and converged across EU-15, but electricity and gas prices have either increased or diverged. Productivity has increased, but mainly as a result of falling employment in absolute and relative terms. Liberalised industries are still characterised by high levels of market concentration and low levels of transparency and market integration. These findings are in line with the predictions of the theory of second best and suggest that the case for liberalisation of network industries has been oversold.

Download or read book Remedies in Network Industries written by Damien Geradin and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, the European Union has undertaken major market-opening reforms in the area of network industries. The liberalization process has now been completed in the air transport and electronic communications sectors and has achieved considerable progress in other network industries, such as postal services, energy (electricity and gas), and rail transport. Creating competition in network industries is not an easy matter, however. Because they benefit from certain advantages such as a large initial market share and control of essential facilities, incumbents typically retain substantial market power in a number of relevant markets and may even use their position to prevent others from engineering such markets. Controlling market power is thus one of a number of key concerns in network industries. It can be achieved in two main ways; either through the adoption and implementation of sector-specific rules or through the application of competition rules. There are advantages and disadvantages to both options, but it is a combination of the two that generally prevents incumbents from abusing their market power in liberalized markets. Competition law and sector-specific regulation provide for the application of remedies on incumbents or other operators holding significant market power. Such remedies are either structural or a behavioural. In some occasions they will apply ex ante, while in others ex post. This book comprises a collection of outstanding essays dealing with the complex legal and economic issues raised by remedies in network industries. While some of these essays analyse remedies from a generic point of view, others focus on specific remedies applied specifically in particular sectors. The sectors covered in this volume include electronic communications, postal services, energy (electricity and gas), and air transport. The final paper also presents a discussion of the United States approach to remedies in network industries. The essays comprised in this book have been written by leading academics (lawyers and economists), as well as private practitioners.

Download or read book Network Industries written by Matthias Finger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique challenges associated with understanding network industries requires insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives, namely economics, engineering, law, and political science. This book analyzes the de- and re-regulation of the network industries and the regulatory challenges these industries will face in the future. Network industries are characterised by economics that entail limiting effects on competition and market creation, and the book highlights the drivers behind their liberalization as well as the inherent need for regulation as liberalization unfolds. By way of an historical approach, the author offers insights into the distinctive approaches between Europe and North America in the past whilst also presenting the pervasive role digitalization increasingly comes to play. A concise overview of the state of thinking about the network industries, this book will be vital reading for researchers, advanced students and practitioners.

Download or read book Liberalisation of Network Industries is Electriciy an Exception to the Rule written by François Coppens and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategic Behaviour in Network Industries written by Ernst F. Heuvelhof and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This book convincingly argues that - from a theoretical point of view - present day network industries offer opportunities for strategic behaviour and that these opportunities are also actually utilized in practice. the authors show that this behaviour can be harmful to the realization of the expected positive effects of institutional changes such as liberalization and privatization (e.g., innovation and lower prices). the authors make their case in a solid theoretical way illustrated with insightful case studies. This book is a must for academics, managers and policy makers in today's network industries.' - John Groenewegen, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

Download or read book Emerging Issues in Competition Collusion and Regulation of Network Industries written by Antonio Estache and published by CEPR. This book was released on 2011 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive review of the vast economic literature covering the governance issues of network industries and suggests paths to improve their efficiences.

Download or read book SMEs and the Liberalisation of the Network Industries written by European Commission. Directorate-General for Enterprise and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Liberalisation of Network Industries and Access to Natural Resources written by Gonçalo Miguel Banha Coelho and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thesis analyses the impact of the regulation of radio spectrum and energy resources in the liberalisation of wireless communications and electricity in the European Union (EU). The answer to this inquiry presupposes a discussion of three sub-questions: (i) what is the competence of the EU to regulate energy resources ("the power gap")?; (ii) is there a gap in the regulation of natural resources ("the regulatory gap")?; and (iii) how has the Commission used other instruments, particularly competition law, to bridge the two gaps. The Introduction presents the institutional economics approach that guides the reader throughout the Thesis. It builds upon Williamson's four levels of institutional analysis and argues that the way in which access to natural resources is structured (level 2 of institutional analysis), deeply impacts the regulatory design of the network industries and the way in which the Commission shapes the application of competition law. Its purpose is not to present an ideal system of resource management but rather to highlight that all institutional decisions bear costs, and that, in the absence of level 2 interventions, the Commission has used imperfect alternative solutions, such as competition law, to bridge the regulatory and power gaps. Having laid out an analytical methodology, I move to the specific discussion of radio spectrum (Chapters 1-4) and energy resources (Chapters 5-6). In the two parts of the Thesis I use the U.S. as a benchmark for analysis so as to demonstrate that several institutional solutions are possible: command and control backed-up by public ownership, market mechanisms with private property and commons (the latter is discussed only in relation with wireless communications). Starting with the "power gap", I argue that it does not stem from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (Articles 345 and 194(2) TFEU) and that, despite its practical consequences, it has an essentially epistemological nature (Chapters 2 and 5). Chapters 3 and 5 offer a 5 thorough analysis of the EU's attempts to directly regulate radio spectrum and energy resources irrespective of the power gap. The argument put forward is that "level 2" interventions by the EU have been scant and generally ineffective, having therefore contributed to the creation or reinforcement of bottlenecks in wireless communications and electricity. As a result, the Commission has resorted to imperfect alternative institutional solutions, especially competition law in a 'property rights' way that compensates for a perceived lack of powers to regulate natural resources directly. Albeit unorthodox, this approach to the redesign of property rights held by Member States was ratified by the Court of Justice in its Greek Lignites judgment and the subsequent line of argumentation followed up by the Commission in follow-up cases.

Download or read book The Economics of Network Industries written by Oz Shy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-08 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces upper-level undergraduates to network economics, the fastest-growing area of industry.

Download or read book Network Industries and Social Welfare written by Massimo Florio and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public services, such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in Europe in less than 20 years. This was not the outcome of spontaneous adaptation, but an entirely top-down policy experiment, mainly conceived in London during Mrs Thatcher's years, then pursued in Brussels - the 'capital' of the European Union - and imposed on more or less reluctant players by laws, directives, regulations, and administrative and judicial decisions. The European reform paradigm revolves around three pillars: privatisation, unbundling, and regulated liberalisation of network industries. These industries, despite the reforms, are still special, as they include core natural monopoly components (the electricity grid, the gas pipelines, the telephony networks, etc.), are often based on complex system integration of different segments (for example of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retail supply), and offer services that have critical social and economic importance, from heating to internet. This book offers a careful scrutiny of energy and telephony reforms and prices paid by households in 15 countries across Western Europe. It attempts to answer such questions as: Are the consumers in Europe happier than they were before the reforms? Do they pay less? Do they get a better quality for the services? Network Industries and Social Welfare provides an overview of the main facts, the conceptual issues, and of the empirical evidence on pricing, perceptions of quality of service, and the issues of utility poverty and social affordability. It suggests that the benefits of the reforms for the consumers have often been limited and that governments should reconsider their overconfidence in regulated market mechanisms in network industries.

Download or read book The Governance of Network Industries written by John Groenewegen and published by Edward Elgar Pub. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructures are subject to substantial readjustments of governance structures, often labeled as liberalization, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and water. This study highlights and illustrates some of the major challenges for readjusting the governance of network industries from an economic, institutional, political and technological perspective. the three parts of the book address the institutional design of infrastructures, the role of technology in different sectors and actor behaviour.