Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why And How Do We Know? Lessons From Asia And Beyond
Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century. Providing public goods, securing their financing, maintenance, and improving the efficiency of their delivery, has generated a voluminous literature and series of debates. More recently, these issues have again become a central concern, as new public management approaches have transformed the role of the state in the provision of public goods and the modalities by which the financing of infrastructure and its operation are procured.Yet, despite the proliferation of new modalities of regulating infrastructure little is known about what works and why. Why do certain regulatory regimes fail and others succeed? What regulatory designs and institutional features produce optimal outcomes and how? And why do regulatory forms of governance when transplanted into different institutional contexts produce less than uniform outcomes? This book addresses these questions, exploring the theoretical foundations of regulation as well as a series of case studies drawn from the telecommunications, electricity, and water sectors. It brings together distinguished scholars and expert practitioners to explore the practical problems of regulation, regulatory design, infrastructure operation, and the implications for infrastructure provision.
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Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why And How Do We Know? Lessons From Asia And Beyond
Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century. Providing public goods, securing their financing, maintenance, and improving the efficiency of their delivery, has generated a voluminous literature and series of debates. More recently, these issues have again become a central concern, as new public management approaches have transformed the role of the state in the provision of public goods and the modalities by which the financing of infrastructure and its operation are procured.Yet, despite the proliferation of new modalities of regulating infrastructure little is known about what works and why. Why do certain regulatory regimes fail and others succeed? What regulatory designs and institutional features produce optimal outcomes and how? And why do regulatory forms of governance when transplanted into different institutional contexts produce less than uniform outcomes? This book addresses these questions, exploring the theoretical foundations of regulation as well as a series of case studies drawn from the telecommunications, electricity, and water sectors. It brings together distinguished scholars and expert practitioners to explore the practical problems of regulation, regulatory design, infrastructure operation, and the implications for infrastructure provision.
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Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why And How Do We Know? Lessons From Asia And Beyond

Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why And How Do We Know? Lessons From Asia And Beyond

Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why And How Do We Know? Lessons From Asia And Beyond

Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why And How Do We Know? Lessons From Asia And Beyond

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Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century. Providing public goods, securing their financing, maintenance, and improving the efficiency of their delivery, has generated a voluminous literature and series of debates. More recently, these issues have again become a central concern, as new public management approaches have transformed the role of the state in the provision of public goods and the modalities by which the financing of infrastructure and its operation are procured.Yet, despite the proliferation of new modalities of regulating infrastructure little is known about what works and why. Why do certain regulatory regimes fail and others succeed? What regulatory designs and institutional features produce optimal outcomes and how? And why do regulatory forms of governance when transplanted into different institutional contexts produce less than uniform outcomes? This book addresses these questions, exploring the theoretical foundations of regulation as well as a series of case studies drawn from the telecommunications, electricity, and water sectors. It brings together distinguished scholars and expert practitioners to explore the practical problems of regulation, regulatory design, infrastructure operation, and the implications for infrastructure provision.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789814335737
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 06/09/2011
Pages: 624
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Preface v

List of Contributors xiii

Chapter 1 Regulating Infrastructure: A Review of the Issues, Problems, and Challenges Ed Araral Darryl S.L. Jarvis M. Ramesh Wu Xun 1

Part I Problems, Issues, and Perspectives in Regulation, Regulatory Design and Outcomes

Chapter 2 Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why, and How do we Know? Judith Clifton Daniel Díaz-Fuentes Marcos Fernández-Gutiérrez Julio Revuelta 27

Chapter 3 Does Political Accountability Matter for Infrastructure Regulation?: The Case of Telecommunications Farid Gasmi Paul Noumba Laura Recuero Virto 61

Chapter 4 Entry Relaxation and an Independent Regulator: Performance Impact on the Mobile Telecoms Industry in Asia Chalita Srinuan Pratompong Srinuan Erik Bohlin 83

Part II Electricity Sector Regulation & Governance

Chapter 5 Risk, Regulation and Governance: Institutional Processes and Regulatory Risk in the Thai Energy Sector Darryl S.L. Jarvis 111

Chapter 6 Electricity Tariff Regulation in Thailand: Analyses and Applications of Incentive Regulation Puree Sirasoontorn 153

Chapter 7 Regulating Power without a Five Year Plan: Institutional Changes in the Chinese Power Sector Kun-Chin Lin Mika Puna Hui Lin 189

Chapter 8 The Indonesian Electricity Sector: Institutional Transition, Regulatory Capacity and Outcomes Mika Purra 231

Chapter 9 Regulating the Independent Power Producers: A Comparative Analysis of Performance of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, and Tamil Nadu in India Rajendra Kumar 279

Chapter 10 Partial Privatization and Nested Regulation: Institutional Choices in Public Sector and Regulatory Reform Sunil Tankha 303

Chapter 11 The Electricity Industry Reform in Korea: Lessons: for Further Liberalization Junkt Kim Kyuhyun Kim 333

Part III Water Sector Regulation & Governance

Chapter 12 Regulatory Independence and Contract Incompleteness: Assessing Regulatory Effectiveness in Water Privatization in Manila Xun Wu Loit Batac Nepomuceno A. Malaluan 361

Chapter 13 Can Regulation Improve the Performance of Government-Controlled Water Utilities? David Ehrhardt Nils Janson 391

Chapter 14 Effects of Regulatory Quality and Political Institutions on Access to Water and Sanitation Andrew B. Whitford Helen Smith Anant Mandawat 419

Chapter 15 The Regulation of Water Infrastructure in Italy: Origins and Effects of an 'Hybrid' Regulatory System Alberto Asquer 457

Chapter 16 Measuring Effectiveness of Regulation Across a River System: A Welfare Approach Alex Coram Lyle Noakes 489

Chapter 17 Private Sector Participation and Regulatory Reform in Water Supply: The Southern Mediterranean Experience Edouard Perard 509

Chapter 18 Tempered Responsiveness through Regulatory Negotiations in the Water Sector: Managing Unanticipated Innovations Emerging from Participation Reforms Boyd Fuller Sunil Tankha 553

Index 585

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