Crisis y regímenes de crecimiento

una introducción a la teoría de la regulación

Al mismo tiempo que emergen nuevos países industrializados, las economías de antigua industrialziación no han recuperado el ritmo de crecimiento de los años sesenta. ¿Por qué? La teoría de la regulación fue conocida primero por haber aportado una respuesta en términos de auge y luego ...

Privatizar la cultura

La esponsorización y la implicación en el ámbito de las artes visuales se han concertido en rasgos cada vez más frecuentes de nuestra vida cultural. De las exposiciones auspiciadas por Absolut Vodka al uso del autorretrato de Van Gogh por parte de ABN-AMOR para publicitar ...

Liberalization of the postal and delivery sector

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest as the delivery sector undergoes rapid change and the debate on liberalization rages. This compendium of original essays has been selected from papers presented at the Rutgers University CRRI 14th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics ...

Regulatory quality in Europe

concepts, measures and policy processes

The European Union and its member states are investing in ambitious programmes for # better regulation# and targets of regulatory quality. This book lifts the veil of excessively optimistic propositions covering the whole better regulation agenda. It provides an innovative conceptual framework to handle the political ...

The political economy of antitrust

Motivated by recent events and experiences in antitrust enforcement and policy in the United States and the European Union, and new insights and findings from academic research, this book presents a collection of theoretical, empirical and public policy-oriented articles representing recent research on the political-economy ...

Utility regulation in competitive markets

problems and progress

"Utility Regulation in Competitive Markets" is the latest book in the annual series published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically reviews the state of utility regulation and competition policy. This significant new volume contains incisive chapters ...

La liberalización de las telecomunicaciones en la Unión Europea

Los mercados de telecomunicaciones estuvieron hasta los años ochenta en manos de las autoridades estatales. Constituían mercados monopolísticos u ostentaban importantes derechos especiales que delimitaban unos mercados ajenos a cualquier injerencia competitiva. Cuando surge la necesidad de abrirlos a la competencia, en un panorama de ...

The privatisation of European telecommunications

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 ...

The Euroepan Union and culture

between economic regulation and european cultural policy

"The European Union and Culture" explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector - understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed ...

The unsustainable costs of partial deregulation

Three decades ago, federal policy makers - Republicans and Democrats - embarked on a general strategy of deregulation. In the electricity, gas delivery, and telecommunications industries, the strategy called for restructuring to separate production from transmission and distribution, followed by the elimination of price controls. The expected ...

Privatization experiences in the European Union

Experts evaluate the varied outcomes of privatization experiences in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. The trend toward privatization, which began with privatization experiments in the UK under Margaret Thatcher and the deregulation of the telecommunications sector in ...

Regulatory impact assessment

towards better regulation?

Better state regulation is a key component of economic reform. This is the first book to comprehensively explore international experience in the use of Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA), which involves assessing the potential benefits and costs of any regulatory change. The authors reveal that RIA ...

Grupos públicos de sociedades

La realidad nos muestra una importante presencia de sociedades públicas. Las modas liberalizadoras y privatizadoras no han reducido el sector público en España, que, por el contrario, se ha incrementado de manera desmedida sobre todo en Comunidades Autónomas y Corporaciones locales. Es más, muchas sociedades ...

The Elgar Companion to public economics

empirical public economics

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students but ...

Public finance

Shoup (political economy, Columbia U.) takes a comprehensive and global approach to the issue of how people pay for their governments' services, while also considering the goals, effects, and criteria of the public finance methods they use. Graced with a new introduction by Steven Medema.

Public management

old and new

Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting book is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the American model in perspective for academics around the world, this book establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical ...

Solutions manual to accompany intermediate public economics

This is the solutions manual for all exercises in "Intermediate Public Economics", allowing students to use the analytical tools of public economics at several levels. This solutions manual for "Intermediate Public Economics" (MIT Press, 2006) offers students an opportunity to practice using the analytical tools ...

Tramitación de subvenciones públicas

conforme a la Ley General de Subvenciones

Las subvenciones públicas son una fuente más de financiación para la realización de los proyectos que desarrollan las fundaciones. Esta monografía es una guía práctica en la que se ofrece un análisis detallado de todo el proceso de tramitación que ha de conocerse antes de ...

Metodología de modelizacióon de procedimientos administrativos

Elaborado por el Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas.

La evaluación de las políticas públicas