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Overview"Opening with an introductory chapter that covers the driving forces of the reform of network industries, the economics of pro-competitive regulation of them, and the political and institutional traps/complexities of this process, this book goes on to deal with the question of extending reforms to the water and sewage sectors, how complex state/company interactions are in the first and later stages of reform and how hard it is to design ""regulation"" in the second generation." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Emiel F.M. Wubben , William HulsinkPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN: 9781843763710ISBN 10: 1843763710 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 26 August 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Making Markets and Controlling Competition: Regulatory Reform in Public Utilities Part I: Perspectives on Engineering Competition 1. Engineering Competition: The European Approach 2. The Role of Regulation in an Era of Partial Competition Part II: Empirical Overview Papers 3. The Dynamics of Regulation: Performance, Risk and Strategy in the Privatized, Regulated Industries 4. The Privatization of Infrastructures in the Theory of the State: An Empirical Overview and a Discussion of Competing Theoretical Explanations Part III: Country/Sector Studies 5. Policies for Open Network Access 6. Liberalization and Technical Change in Finland 7. A Waterloo of Utility Liberalization? How Great Deregulation Expectations were Dashed by the Dutch Water Industry in the 1990s Part IV: Conclusion 8. Engineering Competition - Or Engineering Regulation? IndexReviews'The introductory chapter by the editors is extremely wide-ranging and therefore very useful for any reader not yet introduced to the manifold intricacies of this topic. What is remarkable about this chapter is that three aspects are dealt with at the same time: the driving forces of the reform of network industries, the economics of pro-competitive regulation of them, and the political and institutional traps/complexities of this process. If this were not enough, it is done with a view on both the US and Europe. The remainder of the book shows, sometimes with painstaking detail, not only how difficult it is for regulators and their political masters but also for incumbents and not just for new entrants, as is always stressed. It shows the tricky question of extending reforms to the water and sewage sectors, how complex state/company interactions are in the first and later stages of reform and how hard it is to design regulation properly in the second generation.' -- Jacques Pelkmans, College of Europe, Bruges and Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium 'The introductory chapter by the editors is extremely wide-ranging and therefore very useful for any reader not yet introduced to the manifold intricacies of this topic. What is remarkable about this chapter is that three aspects are dealt with at the same time: the driving forces of the reform of network industries, the economics of pro-competitive regulation of them, and the political and institutional traps/complexities of this process. If this were not enough, it is done with a view on both the US and Europe. The remainder of the book shows, sometimes with painstaking detail, not only how difficult it is for regulators and their political masters but also for incumbents and not just for new entrants, as is always stressed. It shows the tricky question of extending reforms to the water and sewage sectors, how complex state/company interactions are in the first and later stages of reform and how hard it is to design 'regulation' properly in the second generation.' -- Jacques Pelkmans, College of Europe, Bruges and Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium Author InformationEdited by Emiel F.M. Wubben, Associate Professor in Strategic Management for the Management Studies Group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands and Willem Hulsink, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and New Business Venturing, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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