Competition Policy in Regulated Industries: Approaches for Emerging Economies

Por Paulina Beato, Jean-Jacques Laffont (12/02, En) Vea también Infraestructura y Mercados Financieros

ISBN: 1-931003-36-X
353 pp. 2002
English
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Competition Policy in Regulated Industries is part of a larger effort of the Inter-American Development Bank to find new ways to improve the efficiency of infrastructure services in emerging economies. The Bank's agenda includes two main goals in this regard: increasing competitiveness and promoting regional integration.

This book makes the case that enhancing competition in infrastructure sectors demands the appropriate mix of three policies: structural reforms that separate competitive and noncompetitive segments; competition regulations that that preclude abuse of dominant position and control mergers and acquisitions; and appropriate regulations for ensuring that prices of and access to essential facilities (the noncompetitive segments of the industry) are nondiscriminatory and fair.

In addition, this book discusses how competition and liberalization in the infrastructure sectors are critical for transnational projects and regional integration.

Contents


Foreword

Editors' Introduction
Paulina Beato and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Chapter 1
Designing Infrastructure Regulation in Developing Countries
Cécile Aubert and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Chapter 2
Chile's Antitrust Legislation: Effects on Essential Facilities
Pablo Serra

Chapter 3
Argentina's Natural Gas Markets: Antitrust and Regional Integration Issues
Diego Bondorevsky and Diego Petrecolla

Chapter 4
Colombia's Natural Gas Industry: A Competition Failure
Alfredo Garcia

Chapter 5
Pricing Monopoly Segments of Regulated Industries in Developing Countries
Paulina Beato and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Chapter 6
Competition and Networks in the European Transport Sector
David Wood

Chapter 7
Cross-subsidy Prices in Public Utilities
Paulina Beato

Chapter 8
Power Sector Reforms in Central America: Challenges of Regional Convergence
Richard Tomiak and Jaime Millan

Chapter 9
Competition Policy in Latin American Infrastructure: Lessons from Six Countries
Carmen Fuente

Chapter 10
The Role of Competition Law in Infrastructure Industries: The European Energy Market
Salomé Cisnal de Ugarte

Epilogue
A Regulator's Views
Miguel A. Fernández-Ordóñez

Ultima actualización: 08/05/07

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