Liberalizations in network industries : economics, policy and politics / Antonio Nicita, Filippo Belloc.
"This book analyzes the economic, regulatory, and political facets behind the liberalization wave observed in network industries (such as electronic communications, gas, electricity, water, postal services, airports, and rail), in OECD countries and globally, in the past three decades. During t...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The Liberalization of Network Industries: Meaning and Purpose; 1.1. Introduction; 1.2. Market Structure and the Nature of Competition; 1.3. Public Interventions Against Market Failures; 1.4. The Rise of Liberalization Policy in Network Industries; 1.5. The Evolution of the Neoliberal Paradigm in Network Industries
- 2. Liberalizations, Privatizations, and Institutional Market Design; 2.1. Introduction; 2.2. Liberalization Versus Privatization; 2.3. Liberalization and Organization Design of Network Industries; 2.4. Access Liberalization and Access Regulation; 2.5. Liberalization and Institutional Design of Market Transactions; 2.6. Liberalization and Innovation; 2.7. Liberalizing Industry's Noncompetitive Components; 2.8. Liberalizing Industry's Competitive Components
- 3. Liberalization, Antitrust, and Pro-Consumer Policies; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. The Essential Facility Doctrine; 3.3. Constructive Refusal to Deal and the Margin Squeeze Abuse; 3.4. Competition Policy and Regulation under the European Approach; 3.5. Demand-Side Liberalizations; 3.6. Consumer Protection and Competition; 3.7. Empowerment Versus Protection; 3.8. The Libertarian Paternalistic Approach
- 4. Liberalization Patterns: The Case of Electronic Communications; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Liberalization, Path Dependency, and Institutional Complementarities; 4.3. Path Dependency in Telecommunications Liberalizations; 4.4. Complementarities Between Liberalization and Regulatory Design
- 5. Political Market Design in Network Industries; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. The Traditional Political Economy Literature; 5.3. ... and Its Limits; 5.4. Estimating the Political Trade-Offs Behind Privatization and Liberalization Policies; 5.5. Interpreting the Political Trade-Offs Behind Privatization and Liberalization Policies; 5.6. The Political Economy of Deregulating Telecommunications: Open Questions
- 6. The Way Ahead.