Regulatiion, Institiutions, and Commiment in the Bristish Telecommunications
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
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Author : Pablo Tomas Spiller
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Privatization
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In the past decade the United Kingdom has emerged as a pacesetter for institutional change in the telecommunications sector. Investment in the sector has jumped, despite the uncertainty one might expect from the United Kingdom's inexperience with public utility regulation, from its lack of constitutional protection against governmental and regulatory discretion, and from continuing institutional change.
Author : Glenn R. Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 1999-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195353196
This book examines transaction cost economics, the influential theoretical perspective on organizations and industry that was the subject of Oliver Williamson's seminal book,Markets and Hierarchies (1975). Written by leading economists, sociologists, and political scientists, the essays collected here reflect the fruitful intellectual exchange that is occurring across the major social science disciplines. They examine transaction cost economics' general conceptual orientation, its specific theoretical propositions, its applications to policy, and its use in systematic empirical research. The chapters include classic texts, broad review essays, reflective commentaries, and several new contributions to a wide range of topics, including organizations, regulations and law, institutions, strategic management, game theory, entrepreneurship, innovation, finance, and technical information. The book begins with an overview of theory and research on transaction cost economics, highlighting the specific accomplishments of scholars working within the perspective and emphasizing the enormous influence that transaction cost reasoning exerts on the social sciences. The following section covers conceptual uses for the transaction cost framework and major theoretical or methodological elements within it, such as bounded rationality. While advancing some interesting theoretical propositions, these chapters are in fact more ambitious: each examines a specific field, area, or research program and attempts to fashion a new way of thinking about research questions. In the section on industrial applications, contributors study the application of transaction cost theory to a range of problems in utilities, telecommunications, laser printing, and early international trade. The book closes with four microanalytical chapters that delve into the structures and behaviors of specific aspects of firms and organizations: boards of directors, equity structures, employment models, human resource policies and practices, technology strategies, and innovation events. Firms, Markets, and Hierarchies collects excellent social science work on transaction cost economics, taking stock of its status, charting its future development, and fostering its renewal and evolution.
Author : J. Luis Guasch
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 37,41 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780821347591
'...developing countries, complementing their far-reaching privatization programs, are engaged in deregulating various sectors of their economies and devising new regulatory frameworks for others, particularly the utilities sectors.' As economies become more open, pressures on countries to become more competitive drive the call for regulatory reform to reduce costs and foster increased productivity, competitiveness, and growth. This report provides an overview of the costs and benefits of regulation throughout the world. It provides case histories of regulation in different countries, developed and developing and in various sectors, such as, transportation, utilities, and power. It presents different strategies that were employed. Furthermore, it identifies lessons learned and lays the foundations for a best practice scenario for other countries to adopt. While the challenges to regulatory reform are considerable, so are the efforts that developing countries are making to face them. These lessons, when properly adapted to each country's own environment, can significantly increase the likelihood of effective regulation.
Author : Jeffrey S. Banks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1995-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521478106
Political economy has been an essential realm of inquiry and has attracted myriad intellectual adherents for much of the period of modern scholarship. The discipline's formal split into the distinct studies of political science and economics in the nineteenth-century, while advantageous for certain scientific developments, has biased the way economists and political scientists think about many issues, and has placed artificial constraints on the study of many important social issues. This volume calls for a reaffirmation of the importance of the unified study of political economy, and explores the frontiers of the interaction between politics and markets. This volume brings together intellectual leaders of various areas, drawing upon state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical analysis from each of the underlying disciplines. Each chapter, while beginning with a survey of existing work, focuses on profitable lines of inquiry for future developments. Particular attention is devoted to fields of active current development.
Author : Clare Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134637314
Using unprecedented access to the key actors inside the UK Office of Telecommunications (OFTEL) and supporting interviews, this book explores how telecommunications regulation works from the inside.
Author : Robert Picciotto
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780765804235
The Institutional Dimension.
Author : Punam Chuhan
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 43,47 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Capital investments
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Major institutional investors in five industrial countries invest cautiously, and very little, in emerging market securities. But only in Germany are regulations on foreign investment a significant constraint.
Author : David Edward Michael Sappington
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Administracion publica
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Differences in the form, function, and scope of regulatory policies are traced to differences in social institutions, in the characteristics of the industries being regulated, and in the regulators' objectives and resources.
Author : Oliver E. Williamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Corporate governance
ISBN : 0195132602
This text studies transaction cost economics, influential in economic thought on how institutions work. Whereas orthodox economics describes the firm in technological terms, as a production function, transaction cost economics describes it in organizational terms, as a governance structure.