Privatisation Deregulation And Institutional Change In European Telecommunications
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| Author | : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides |
| Publisher | : World Bank Publications |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.
| Author | : Willem Hulsink |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134679955 |
This book combines a detailed, sector-specific study of comparative telecommunications regimes set in the context of the EC, with an extensive historical and empirical analysis of individual policy management and change as experienced by three diverse regulatory cultures, namely, Britain, the Netherlands and France. By adopting a comprehensive analytical framework based on far-reaching literature, the author explores a wide-range of theories, addressing key issues at the forefront of contemporary political and academic debate as: Do nation states matter in the globalizing telecommunications industry? Does the common challenge of techno-global telecommunications restructuring elicit different national responses? What is the significance of a single-speed or multi-speed Europe in implementing telecommunications governance regimes?
| Author | : Jan-Erik Lane |
| Publisher | : SAGE |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 1997-12-12 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 085702616X |
Deregulation, privatization and marketization have become the bywords for the reforms and debates surrounding the public sector. This major book is unique in its comparative analysis of the reform experience in Western and Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Leading experts identify a number of key factors to systematically explain the similarities and differences, map common problems and together reflect on the future shape of the public sector, exploring significant themes in a lively and accessible way.
| Author | : Judith Clifton |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2013-03-09 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1475737335 |
Judith Clifton, Francisco Comín and Daniel Díaz Fuentes in Privatisation in the European Union reject the two dominant explanations provided in literature, which include a simple 'Americanisation' of policy and a 'varied' privatisation experience without a common driving force. Using a systematic comparative analysis of privatisation experiences in each country from the 1980s to the beginning of the twenty first century, the authors show how the process of European integration and the need for internationally competitive industries have constituted key driving forces in the quest for privatisation across the EU. As privatisation slows down at the turn of the millennium, what future can citizens expect for public enterprises? Privatisation in the European Union is essential reading for researchers, students and policy-makers interested in privatisation, EU policy and the history of public enterprises.
| Author | : Johan From |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2017-11-28 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351145584 |
This international volume presents a comprehensive, comparative study of the transformation of the European telecommunications industry from 1990 to the present. The book focuses on the old incumbent operators and their dramatic change from state agencies to listed companies. It analyzes the liberalization process, as well as the corporatization and privatization of these companies. The contributors assess the conditions for the transformations taking place; the driving forces for change; the effects to management, the efforts of the EU during these processes, and ultimately, the role of the private owner. Political science publications have all but excluded analysis of the newly privatized companies; their contribution to the liberalization process both before and after privatization; and the interplay between the national political and company levels. The book redresses this shortcoming, and also features a double empirical focus in that the main national incumbents in Europe are analyzed and compared to Telenor, the Norwegian former incumbent.
| Author | : Robert Millward |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 388 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Energy industries |
| ISBN | : 9780521835244 |
| Author | : British Institute of International and Comparative Law |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Comparative law |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Kjell A. Eliassen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 239 |
| Release | : 2013-03-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1134660774 |
This book examines the process and consequences of telecommunications liberalisation in the context of an ever closer European Union. The creation of a single market for telecommunications and of a wider European single market mirror one another. Telecommunications are also something of a test case for the privatisation process, as this sector has traditionally been a state monopoly. The volume approaches the European experience from three angles: * the politics of regulation and the process of liberalisation in the EU (including case studies of the UK, France, and Germany) * increasing global economic interdependence makes international comparisons essential, and the volume compares the EU experience with that of the Czech Republic, Israel and Thailand * the consequences of technology and continuous innovation
| Author | : Paul Cook |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 728 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Government ownership |
| ISBN | : |
In the last decades of the 20th century, privatization has been a key policy instrument in the move to more market-based economic systems in all parts of the developing world. Privatization, however, has not necessarily been accompanied by an increase in market competition. Many public utilities have been privatized as monopolies and in addition regulatory systems have been developed to restrict their market power and protect the interests of consumers. This volume brings together a collection of papers that provide theoretical and empirical insights into privatization and regulation, as well as policy perspectives in relation to developing countries.
| Author | : Rolf W. Künneke |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781781958346 |
This book provides evolutionary and institutional perspectives on the reform of infrastructure industries, tracing the development of this process in a number of sectors and countries. The contributors contend that infrastructure based industries such as telecommunications, public transport, water management and energy have been increasingly exposed to the dynamism of the market since becoming privatized, and have therefore been stimulated into short-term efficiency and long-term innovation. Drawing on institutional economic theory backed up with case studies such as the California energy crisis, the Dutch gas industry, oil and electricity companies in Spain and the privatization of Schipol airport in Amsterdam the book focuses on process, driving forces, and actors' roles to explain how new balances are established between competing institutions. The degree to which the processes of institutional change are predictable and the effects of deliberate strategic interventions of governments or private actors are explored. Specific technical and sector aspects and their influence on institutional change in various infrastructures are also discussed.
