We explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector …

of the reform agenda in telecommunications regulation could accelerate adoption of the Internet in Latin America … determinants of growth in Internet connections and use). Regulation will work by cutting costs. Cost cutting will require that …

This paper makes the case for the return of regulation in the organization of urban bus services in developing …

A decade of experience has shown that monitoring the performance of public and private monopolies is the hardest part … regulation. South American electricity regulators can reduce this information asymmetry by increasing international coordination …

reduction. However, recent reforms aimed at improving the performance of these sectors have had limited success. Evidence … problems with regulation in these countries. At the heart of the survey is the work of Jean-Jacques Laffont, who, in the last … decade of his life, set about developing a theoretical framework for regulation in developing countries. We consider the …