Within the area of study of privatization, some attention has been placed on the emergence of mixed public-private ownership firms for the provision of public services. Mixed ownership firms may provisionally result during an intermediate stage within a process oriented towards full...

Within the field of study of infrastructure, several works have addressed the issue of the coherence between technology and institutions of network industries. In a dynamic perspective, issues arise about how technology and institutions co-evolve, what stimulates improvement of infrastructure...

This study aims to contribute investigating the difficulties to reap the intended benefits of policy reforms to liberalize and re-regulate network industries. This issue is tackled through the 'theoretical lenses' of new institutional economics, in particular by following the Institutional...

Regulatory reforms are often made and implemented with the aim to introduce some competitive mechanisms in infrastructure industries which were previously regulated through public ownership. The impact of these reforms on the organisation and behaviour of infrastructure industries, however, may...

This article compares the development of the institutions that regulate the natural gas supply systems in the United States and the European Union. Given the technical and functional similarities of these systems, the question arises as to why regulatory institutions in the US and the EU gas...

With a view to promoting competition and improving consumer welfare, postal markets have been liberalized in many jurisdictions over recent years. The present study intends to review liberalization movements in postal services with a particular focus on Turkey. Although Turkey has long before...

Rail passenger transport services with integrated regular interval timetables (IRIT) offer passengers a regular interval timetable for services on the railway network. IRIT have the potential to increase the quality and attractiveness of railway passenger services in comparison to other...

This article provides an economic view on how the connection to a distribution network should be priced when the operator considers the spatial distribution of consumers. It highlights the impact of public service constraints on the investment in service quality, the size of the network and the...