In recent decades, all infrastructures have undergone significant restructuring. This worldwide phenomenon is often labelled 'liberalization' and although expectations were high with respect to lower prices, greater efficiency and innovation, the expected gains have not always been fully realized. This extensive, state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various experiences of liberalization across different sectors, regions and disciplines.
The multidisciplinary approach focuses on the economic, political and institutional aspects of liberalization, as well as to a lesser extent on technological issues. As such, it constitutes a unique contribution as this broad overview is often lost in the sector specific, country-focused and purely disciplinary approaches prevalent in the current literature. Sectors explored include telecoms, the Internet, energy and transport, while the truly global perspective incorporates unique case studies from an array of developed and developing countries including the US, China, India and the EU.
The International Handbook of Network Industries will become the definitive volume for academics researchers and students of economics, political science and law interested in infrastructure regulation. It will also prove a valuable guide to practitioners and policy makers involved in liberalization and competition.
Show moreIn recent decades, all infrastructures have undergone significant restructuring. This worldwide phenomenon is often labelled 'liberalization' and although expectations were high with respect to lower prices, greater efficiency and innovation, the expected gains have not always been fully realized. This extensive, state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various experiences of liberalization across different sectors, regions and disciplines.
The multidisciplinary approach focuses on the economic, political and institutional aspects of liberalization, as well as to a lesser extent on technological issues. As such, it constitutes a unique contribution as this broad overview is often lost in the sector specific, country-focused and purely disciplinary approaches prevalent in the current literature. Sectors explored include telecoms, the Internet, energy and transport, while the truly global perspective incorporates unique case studies from an array of developed and developing countries including the US, China, India and the EU.
The International Handbook of Network Industries will become the definitive volume for academics researchers and students of economics, political science and law interested in infrastructure regulation. It will also prove a valuable guide to practitioners and policy makers involved in liberalization and competition.
Show moreContents:
1. Introduction
Matthias Finger and Rolf Künneke
PART I: GENERIC ASPECTS OF INFRASTRUCTURE LIBERALIZATION
2. Basic Economic Principles of Infrastructure Liberalization: A
Transaction Cost Perspective
Pablo T. Spiller
3. A General Framework for Regulation and Liberalization in Network
Industries
Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner
4. From ‘Service Public’ to Universal Service: The Case of the
European Union
Matthias Finger and Dominique Finon
5. Evolution and Design of Institutions Supporting
Liberalization
John Groenewegen
6. The Institutional Economic History of Infrastructure Industries,
1830–1990: Ideology, Technology, Geopolitics?
Robert Millward
PART II: SECTOR STUDIES
7. Liberalization in the Telecom Sector
William H. Melody
8. Liberalization in Radio Spectrum Management
William H. Melody and Wolter Lemstra
9. Liberalization and the Internet
Milton L. Mueller and Wolter Lemstra
10. The Liberalization of Electricity Markets
Jean-Michel Glachant and Yannick Perez
11. Trends in Gas
Maarten J. Arentsen
12. The Oil Industry: A Dynamic Patchwork of Approaches?
Aad Correljé and Lucia van Geuns
13. Reforming Railways
Marc Laperrouza
14. Liberalization of Air Transport
Sveinn Vidar Gudmundsson
15. Road Infrastructure and Institutional Reform: Tolling and
Pricing
David A. Hensher and Demi Chung
16. Public Transport Liberalization: Achievements and Future
Directions
John Stanley
17. Maritime Ports
Lourdes Trujillo and Marianela Gonzalez
18. Liberalization in the Water Sector: Three Leading Models
Claude Ménard and Aleksandra Peeroo
19. Liberalization in the Postal and Delivery Sector
Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer
PART III: COUNTRY AND REGIONAL STUDIES
20. Liberalization of Network Industries in the European Union:
Evolving Policy Issues
Matthias Finger and Marc Laperrouza
21. Liberalization and Regulation of Telecoms, Electricity, and Gas
in the United States
Mark A. Jamison
22. The Liberalization of Infrastructures in Latin America
Francesc Trillas and Miguel A. Montoya
23. Reform of China’s Energy and Telecommunications Sectors
Pun-Lee Lam and Alice Shiu
24. Infrastructure Reforms in India: An Analysis of Successes and
Failures
Leena Srivastava and Shahid Hasan
25. Liberalization of Infrastructures in Russia
Hella Engerer
26. Recent Australian Infrastructure Liberalization
Gary Madden, Jeffrey Petchey and Aaron Morey
27. Infrastructure Liberalization: Challenges to the New Economic
Paradigm in the Context of Developing Countries
Catarina Figueira and David Parker
Index
Edited by Matthias Finger,Professor Emeritus, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, Switzerland and Professor, Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ), Turkey and Rolf W. Künneke, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
’Quite an accomplishment, this Handbook provides by far the most
comprehensive overview of the role of the private sector and
competition in infrastructure industries, with thoughtful surveys
of each of the major infrastructure sectors and of the key regions
and countries.’
*Jose Gomez-Ibanez, Harvard University, US*
’To learn about how economic and institutional forces have shaped
the network industries and policies towards them, read the first
part of the book. To discover their impacts on particular
industries, read the second part. And to find out what has happened
in particular countries, read the third part. I think anyone
interested in network industries should read all of it! The book's
structure allows for many interesting comparisons across countries
and sectors.’
*Richard Green, University of Birmingham, UK*
’This is a very useful and comprehensive guide to reforms in
network industries in communications, energy, transport and water.
It is organized by generic topic, sector and region. Its authors
are acknowledged experts. I am confident that this Handbook will be
a widely read and valuable resource for many years.’
*Martin Cave, London School of Economics, UK*
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