This chapter reviews recent theoretical work on the design of regulatory policy, focusing on
the complications that arise when regulated suppliers have better information about the …

The efficient operation and expansion of infrastructures in developing countries is crucial for
growth and poverty reduction. However, recent reforms aimed at improving the performance …

Attracting private financing is high on the agenda of policy makers concerned with closing
the infrastructure gap in developing countries. To date, however, private finance represents …

The problem of the influence of debt financing on the effectiveness of the arbitrary duration
investment project is studied and quantitative results are obtained for the first time. The …

We study the effect of ownership structure and regulatory independence on the interaction
between capital structure and regulated prices using a comprehensive panel data of publicly …

The regulated firm's choice of capital structure is affected by countervailing incentives: the
firm wishes to signal high value to capital markets to boost its market value while also …

Austrian Controller Award 2005 This book develops a comprehensive concept of regulatory
risk integrating existing theoretical and empirical research. The focus is on explaining how …

The paper surveys the very heterogeneous economic literature on the scope and limits of
efforts to match institutional constraints and needs, on the one hand, and infrastructure …

This article analyzes the relationship between firm financial and investment decisions and
regulatory outcomes in network industries, where regulatory opportunism is often viewed to …

El proceso de privatizaciones que tuvo lugar en Argentina a lo largo de la década de los
noventa constituyó una herramienta a través de la cual se pretendió lograr un amplio …