Editors: Matthias Finger and Rolf W. Künneke
Published: 30 Sep 2011
ISBN: 978-1847206428 (hardback) 978 0857930477 (ebook)
‘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.’
– José Gómez-Ibáñez, Harvard University, US
Contents:
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
David Parker and Catarina Figueira
