The politics of regulation

institutions and regulatory reforms for the age of governance

This book suggests that the scope and breadth of regulatory reforms since the mid-1980s and particularly during the 1990s, are so striking that they necessitate a reappraisal of current approaches to the study of the politics of regulation. The authors call for the adoption of ...

Políticas de privatización

aspectos teóricos, experiencias y casos prácticos

SUMARIO: Introducción PARTE PRIMERA. ASPECTOS TEÓRICOS Y RESULTADOS: 1. La privatización, concepto, objetivos y procedimientos--2. Los resultados de las privatizaciones--3. Las políticas de privatización en España PARTE SEGUNDA. ANÁLISIS DE EXPERIENCIAS Y CASOS PRÁCTICOS: 4. Desregulación, privatización y competencia en el transporte público en autobús--5 ...

Managed care and monopoly power

the antitrust challenge

As millions of Americans are aware, health care costs continue to increase rapidly. Much of this increase is due to the development of new life-sustaining drugs and procedures, but part of it is due to the increased monopoly power of physicians, insurance companies, and hospitals ...

Infraestructuras en red y liberalización de servicios públicos

Trattato di diritto amministrativo

.Vol. 34: Le privatizzazioni in Europa

Il volume si propone una approfondita analisi del fenomeno delle privatizzazioni sviluppatosi in Europa nelgli ultimi anni, con particolare riguardo alle esperienze registrate in Germania, Francia, Inghilterra e Spagna. L'opera si suddivide, così, in quattro parti, una per ogni ordinamento indagato. In ciascuna delle ...

Spectrum auctions and competition in telecommunications

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and ...

Merger remedies in American and European Union competition law

This volume presents a comparative analysis of merger remedies in the EU and USA, motivated by the fact that a growing number of mergers are being scrutinized and reviewed under both jurisdictions. Merger remedies on either side of the Atlantic play an increasingly important role ...

Competitive transformation of the postal and delivery sector

Edited by Michel A.Crew, and Paul R.Kleindorfer Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector is an indispensable source of information and analysis on the current state of the postal and delivery sector. It offers current insights of leading researchers and practitioners into ...

La transición a la competencia

sus costes y sus posibles compensaciones : un estudio crítico

Asistimos desde hace algunos años, y hoy todavía, a lo que se ha denominado como la liberalización de los servicios públicos. La liberalización supone un cambio trascendental que está planteando algunos problemas importantes. Sin duda, uno de ellos es el de su incidencia sobre la ...

Government birds

air transport and the state in Western Europe

Usually described as "state" industries, European airlines have been criticized as uncompetitive, overmanned, and subsidized. But this view begs the question of why and how the state became involved in air transport, as well as the question of whether airlines could have succeeded in Europe ...

Principios de regulación económica en la Unión Europea

Les privatisations d'entreprises publiques dans une économie sociale de marché

aspects juridiques

How governments privatize

the politics of divestment in the United States and Germany

This study of two successful divestment agencies - the US Resolution Trust Corporation and the German Treuhandanstalt - presents a complex understanding of the two agencies' performance in privatizing hundreds of billions of dollars of assets following two very different crises, the savings and loan debacle in ...

Privatization, restructuring and regulation of network utilities

The economics of regulation

principles and institutions

As Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board in the late 1970s, Alfred E. Kahn presided over the deregulation of the airlines and his book, published earlier in that decade, presented the first comprehensive integration of the economic theory and institutional practice of economic regulation