The challenges of privatization

an international analysis

This book provides the first systematic empirical analysis of privatization processes worldwide to explain how and why governments privatize, and whether privatization has proved successful or not. Privatization is shown to be a difficult process, shaped by political preferences and budgetary constraints, often pursued in ...

Droit public de la régulation économique

La mondialisation des flux économiques et l'irruption de la concurence dans le fonctionnement des services publics mettent profondément en cause les relations entre l'Etat et le marché. Depuis une dizaine d'années, le droit public économique est particulièrement le théâtre de ces évolutions ...

Veinte años de privatizaciones en España

La privatización de empresas públicas tiene muchas facetas. Ha sido un instrumento adecuado para aumentar la eficiencia de las empresas implicadas, introducir competitividad, ayudar a la eliminación del déficit público, ampliar los mercados financieros y estimular el ahorro particular. Más allá del volumen de ingresos ...

Économie de la réglementation

Pour réduire la pollution, faut-il taxer le CO2, créer un marché de droits de polluer ou fixer des normes d'émission ? Faut-il accorder un droit de monopole à la distribution du courrier ? La déréglementation remet-elle en cause le service public ? la réglementation est-elle d'abord ...

Lessons from deregulation

telecommunications and airlines after the crunch

Over the last several years, the value of stocks in both the airline and the telecommunications industries have dropped catastrophically. Since these industries were among the most important#and most visible#to have been unleashed from regulation in recent decades (albeit in widely differing degree ...

Principios de Derecho público económico

modelo de Estado, gestión pública, regulación económica

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Teoría y política de privatizaciones

su contribución a la modernización económica: análisis del caso español

El libro Teoría y Política de Privatizaciones:su contribución a la modernización económica.Análisis del caso español, ofrece al lector nuevas aportaciones sobre el proceso de privatizaciones en generaly,particularmente ,sobre el caso español. En sus páginas,se presentan treinta y un estudios que contienen ...

The great divestiture

evaluating the welfare impact of thr British Privatizations 1979-1997

The privatization carried out under the Thatcher and Major governments in Britain has been widely (although not universally) considered a success, and has greatly influenced the privatization of state industries in the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Massimo Florio's systematic analysis is the first ...

Auctions

theory and practice

Governments use them to sell everything from oilfields to pollution permits, and to privatize companies; consumers rely on them to buy baseball tickets and hotel rooms, and economic theorists employ them to explain booms and busts. Auctions make up many of the world's most ...

Auctioning public assets

analysis and alternatives

In many countries all over the world, governments are privatising firms that were previously under public control. This is happening, for example, in public utility sectors such as gas, water and electricity, in transport sectors (such as rail and metro) and in radio and telephony ...

"The Public interest" in regulation

The concept of 'the public interest' is often used in legal and political discourse, lending an air of legitimacy and respectability to exercises of power. However the term is rarely defined in any meaningful sense. This book considers abstract concepts of public interest from the ...

Las guerras del agua

contaminación, privatización y negocio

En Las guerras del agua, Vandana Shiva utiliza su notable conocimiento de la ciencia y la sociedad para analizar la histórica erosión de los derechos de acceso al agua por parte de las comunidades humanas. Al analizar el comercio internacional del agua, incluyendo su embalsamiento ...

La empresa pública en Europa

una perspectiva histórica

En este libro se explica el comportamiento, en el pasado y en el presente, de las empresas públicas en los principales países de la Europa occidental. La ingente información histórica utilizada, que comprende los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX, permite desterrar algunos tópicos apriorísticos sobre ...

Games and public administration

the law of economics of regulation and licensing

Despite the increasing trend towards deregulation, the public regulation of private activities remains a common phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, it is frequently claimed that slow and costly regulatory licensing procedures impede economic growth. This book investigates the strategic and adaptive interaction between citizen-applicants and ...

Market discipline across countries and industries

The effectiveness of market discipline -- the strong built- in incentives that encourage banks and financial systems to operate soundly and efficiently -- commands much attention today, particularly in light of recent accounting scandals. As government discipline, in the form of regulation, seems to grows less effective ...

Public private pertnerships

the worldwide revolution infrastructure provision and project finance

This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies. One outstanding feature of the book is that it brings together an academic assessment ...

Regulating finance

balancing freedom and risk

At a time when regulation of financial markets has been subject to major upheavals this survey will be of particular value. The author is one of the most prominent officials involved in formulating and executing regulatory policy. His concern is to ensure that the new ...

Regulation

legal form and economic theory

This is a reprint of Anthony Ogus' classic study of regulation, first published in the 1990s. It examines how, since the last decades of the twentieth century there have been fundamental changes in the relationship between the state and industry. With the aid of economic ...

L'ordine giuridico del mercato

Contro le pretese di naturalità del mercato, un#autorevole e lucida analisi della funzione conformatrice del diritto. Contro le pretese di neutralità tecnocratica, l#attesa della decisione politica. INDICE Il carattere politico-giuridico del mercato (a mo# di prefazione) - I. L#ordine giuridico del mercato - II ...

Las privatizaciones y la desnacionalización de América Latina

En este libro se analizan las políticas neoliberales impulsadas por las instituciones financieras internacionales y aplicadas por los distintos gobiernos desde los años noventa hasta el 2002. Se estudian de manera crítica los postulados teóricos que han dejado a la Argentina y a la mayoría ...