We address the causes behind the drop in natural gas production in Argentina since 2004, starting from a basic supply model that depends on economic incentives, and adding control variables related to different potential explanations such as firm specific (or area specific) behavior and the...

This paper uses evidence on policies, markets and private transactions to discuss the experience of natural gas infrastructure integration in the Southern Cone of Latin America. The argument is that contracts on international exchanges supported by infrastructure may become incomplete due to...

Este trabajo trata de los aspectos de eficiencia, equidad y financiamiento en la fijacion de precios de empresas publicas. Se comparan distintas estructuras de precios uniformes y se estudia la teoria de la "tarifa en dos partes", en la que se cobra un "cargo fijo" por el derecho de participar...