Privatisation, Competition and Regulation
Over the past decade, privatisation has increasingly taken place in the public utility sector. Technological advances and policy shifts have diminished the perception that public utilities are natural monopolies requiring state ownership. However, the privatisation of such state-owned monopolies rai...
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OECD Publishing
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- CONTENTS; Introductory Note; Privatisation of Public Utilities: The OECD Experience; Introduction and summary; Public ownership of utilities and the case for privatisation:What has changed; The great institutional re-alignment: Changing incentivesand separating objectives; The objectives and results of privatisation; Introducing competition in the infrastructure sectors; Conclusions; Privatisation and Competition: The Evidence from Utility and Infrastructure Privatisation in the United Kingdom; Executive summary; Introduction
- Overview of utility and infrastructure privatisationin the United KingdomThe performance of the privatised industries; Conclusion; Evidence From Utility and Infrastructure Privatisation in Chile; Summary; Introduction; The electrical power industry; The telecommunications sector; The transport sector; Privatisation Methods and Their Impact on Competition: The Brazilian Experience; Summary; Factors that contributed to the Brazilian privatisation process; Methods and aspects of privatisations; Effects of privatisations
- Trade off: mechanisms for the defence of competition versusthe needs of large scale operationConclusions; Appendix I History of the Brazilian Denationalisation Programme; Appendix II Initial Legal Regulatory Framework in Brazil; The Role of the Regulatory Environment in Fostering Innovation and Growth; Introduction; Regulatory reform, new goods and the promotion of entrepreneurship; The benefits of infrastructure reform; Reform options; Conclusions; Competition and Regulation in Public Utilities; Introduction; Legislative role of the European authorities in the liberalisation process
- A policy for efficiency and quality improvements in public utilitiesConclusions; Annex I; Regulation of Water Distribution in Argentina; Summary; Introduction; Regulation, competition and privatisation in Argentina; Privatisation and Regulation of water distribution in Argentina; Regulation of water distributionin the Buenos Aires metropolitan area; Conclusions; Annex II; Policy Issues in Telecommunications Reform: The Netherlands; Regulatory framework; Performance; Policy issues
