Infrastructure regulation : what works, why and how do we know? : lessons from Asia and beyond / Darryl S.L. Jarvis ... [et al.], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jarvis, D. S. L. (Darryl S. L.), 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infrastructure (Economics)--Asia.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Infrastructure (Economics)--Government policy--Asia.

Public utilities--Law and legislation.

Public utilities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (622 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; CHAPTER 1 Regulating Infrastructure: A Review of the Issues, Problems, and Challenges; 1. Introduction; 2. Organization of the Volume; Part I: Telecommunications Sector Regulation and Governance; Part II: Electricity Sector Regulation and Governance; Part III: Water Sector Regulation and Governance; References; PART I Problems, Issues, and Perspectives in Regulation, Regulatory Design and Outcomes; CHAPTER 2 Infrastructure Regulation: What Works, Why, and How do we Know?; 1. Introduction; 2. The Political Economy of Reforming Infrastructure Regulation

2.1. From State to Market: Establishing Citizen Rights to Public Services2.2. A European Compromise: Creating "Citizen-Consumers"; 2.3. Evaluating Regulation: What do we Know, and How?; 2.4. Implications for Designing a Regulatory Framework: New Regulatory Policies in the OECD and EU; 3. Exploring Patterns of Infrastructure Use; 4. Discussion and Conclusions; 4.1. Measuring Regulatory Outcomes and Effectiveness: What do we know?; 4.2. Implications for Regulatory Design: Effectiveness and Operation; 4.3. Lessons for Regulators: What Works, What doesn't?; References

CHAPTER 3 Does Political Accountability Matter for Infrastructure Regulation? The Case of Telecommunications1. Introduction; 2. Institutional and Regulatory Design and Outcomes - What Do We Know?; 3. Data on Regulatory Outcomes and Institutional Environment; 4. Does Political Accountability Affect Regulatory Performance?; 5. Conclusions and Lessons for Regulators; Appendix; References; CHAPTER 4 Entry Relaxation and an Independent Regulator: Performance Impact on the Mobile Telecoms Industry in Asia; 1. Introduction; 2. Background; 2.1 Japan; 2.2 Korea; 2.3 Hong Kong; 2.4 Singapore

2.5 Indonesia2.6 Malaysia; 2.7 Thailand; 3. Measuring Regulatory Outcomes and Effectiveness: What Do We Know?; 4. Implications for Regulatory Design, Effectiveness and Operation; 5. Lessons for Regulators: What Works, What Does Not?; 6. Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Appendix 1: Timeline for the Entry Relaxation in Selected Asian Countries; Appendix 2; A2.1 Econometric results; A2.2 Listed firm performances - full samples; A2.3 Listed firm performances in developed countries; A2.4 Listed firm performances in developing countries; References; PART II Electricity Sector Regulation & Governance

CHAPTER 5 Risk, Regulation and Governance: Institutional Processes and Regulatory Risk in the Thai Energy Sector1. Introduction; 2. Theorizing Regulatory Risk; 2.1. Regulation to the Rescue?; 2.2. Regulatory Risk; 3. The Thai Electricity Sector; 3.1. Historical Background; 3.2. Early Reform Efforts in the Thai Electricity Sector: 1980-1989; 3.3. The Diffusion of Privatization in the Thai Electricity Sector, 1990-1999; 3.4. Winds of Change in the Thai Electricity Sector: Policy & Political Instability, 2000-2006; 4. Regulatory Diffusion: The Emergence of the Energy Regulatory Commission, 2007

4.1. The Metrics of Regulatory Governance: Transparency, Accountability and Autonomy in Embedded Institutional Endowments - The Case of the ERC

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613433633

9781283433631

128343363X

9789814335744

9814335746

OCLC:

775590309