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 ...

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 ...

Metodología de modelizacióon de procedimientos administrativos

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 ...

La evaluación de las políticas públicas

Los perfiles del presupuesto

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº195, año 2006)

El presupuesto de defensa en España

1946-2006

Modelling tax revenue growth

This book demonstrates how the reliable measurement of growth in tax revenues, both for a tax system and for its component taxes, is important for the design of tax policy. The need for discretionary changes in tax parameters (such as tax rates, income thresholds and ...

Impuesto sobre el Valor Añadido

doctrina de la Dirección General de Tributos 2005

The political economy of fiscal policy

public deficits, volatility, and growth

One of the most striking macroeconomic developments during the last three decades is the rise and persistence of large fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from recurrent large fiscal imbalances that often reflect ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro Area

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central ...