Regulatory economics and quantitative methods
Subtitle: evidence from Latin America
By: edited by Omar Osvaldo Chisari.
Contributors: Chisari, Omar O.
Series: CRC series on competition, regulation and development
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845429614
Subjects: Public utilities -- Government policy -- Latin America -- Mathematical models; Infrastructure (Economics) -- Government policy -- Latin America -- Mathematical models
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Omar Chisari; title: Bottom-up or top-down benchmarking in natural monopoly regulation: the case of Chile and the United Kingdom / Andrés Gómes Lobo; title: Labour productivity change estimates as an input for x-factors / Martin A. Rossi; title: Monopoly regulation, Chilean style: the efficient firm standard in theory and practice / çlvaro Bustos and Alexander Galatovic; title: Estimation of productive efficiency based on non parametric techniques. The case of electricity distribution in Argentina / Paula Margaretic and Carlos A. Romero; title: Evolution of Mexico's port efficiency in a multiproduct context: a distance function approach / Lourdes Trujillo and Maria Manuela Gonzalez; title: Renegotiation of concession contracts in Latin America / J. Luis Guasch, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Stephane Straub; title: Lessons from computable general equilibrium models applied to regulatory economics / Omar Chisari, Antonio Estache and Carlos Romero; title: The effectiveness of competition policy in Argentina, Chile and Peru during the 1990s / Paula Maragaretic, Maria Fernanda Martinez and Diego Petrecolla.