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Infrastructure regulation : what works, why and how do we know? : lessons from Asia and beyond /
Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century. Providing public goods, securing their financing, maintenance, and improving the efficiency of their delivery, has generated a voluminous literature and series of debates. More recently, these issues have again...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore :
World Scientific,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; List of Contributors; CHAPTER 1 Regulating Infrastructure: A Review of the Issues, Problems, and Challenges; 1. Introduction; 2. Organization of the Volume; Part I: Telecommunications Sector Regulation and Governance; Part II: Electricity Sector Regulation and Governance; Part III: Water Sector Regulation and Governance; References; PART I Problems, Issues, and Perspectives in Regulation, Regulatory Design and Outcomes; CHAPTER 2 Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why, and How do we Know?; 1. Introduction; 2. The Political Economy of Reforming Infrastructure Regulation.
- 2.1. From State to Market: Establishing Citizen Rights to Public Services2.2. A European Compromise: Creating "Citizen-Consumers"; 2.3. Evaluating Regulation: What do we Know, and How?; 2.4. Implications for Designing a Regulatory Framework: New Regulatory Policies in the OECD and EU; 3. Exploring Patterns of Infrastructure Use; 4. Discussion and Conclusions; 4.1. Measuring Regulatory Outcomes and Effectiveness: What do we know?; 4.2. Implications for Regulatory Design: Effectiveness and Operation; 4.3. Lessons for Regulators: What Works, What doesn't?; References.
- CHAPTER 3 Does Political Accountability Matter for Infrastructure Regulation? The Case of Telecommunications1. Introduction; 2. Institutional and Regulatory Design and Outcomes
- What Do We Know?; 3. Data on Regulatory Outcomes and Institutional Environment; 4. Does Political Accountability Affect Regulatory Performance?; 5. Conclusions and Lessons for Regulators; Appendix; References; CHAPTER 4 Entry Relaxation and an Independent Regulator: Performance Impact on the Mobile Telecoms Industry in Asia; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 2.1 Japan; 2.2 Korea; 2.3 Hong Kong; 2.4 Singapore.
- 2.5 Indonesia2.6 Malaysia; 2.7 Thailand; 3. Measuring Regulatory Outcomes and Effectiveness: What Do We Know?; 4. Implications for Regulatory Design, Effectiveness and Operation; 5. Lessons for Regulators: What Works, What Does Not?; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Appendix 1: Timeline for the Entry Relaxation in Selected Asian Countries; Appendix 2; A2.1 Econometric results; A2.2 Listed firm performances
- full samples; A2.3 Listed firm performances in developed countries; A2.4 Listed firm performances in developing countries; References; PART II Electricity Sector Regulation & Governance.
- CHAPTER 5 Risk, Regulation and Governance: Institutional Processes and Regulatory Risk in the Thai Energy Sector1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing Regulatory Risk; 2.1. Regulation to the Rescue?; 2.2. Regulatory Risk; 3. The Thai Electricity Sector; 3.1. Historical Background; 3.2. Early Reform Efforts in the Thai Electricity Sector: 1980-1989; 3.3. The Diffusion of Privatization in the Thai Electricity Sector, 1990-1999; 3.4. Winds of Change in the Thai Electricity Sector: Policy & Political Instability, 2000-2006; 4. Regulatory Diffusion: The Emergence of the Energy Regulatory Commission, 2007.
- 4.1. The Metrics of Regulatory Governance: Transparency, Accountability and Autonomy in Embedded Institutional Endowments
- The Case of the ERC.