Ce rapport dresse un panorama des approches réglementaires existantes. Il montre ensuite en quoi une approche réglementaire fondée sur les performances pourrait améliorer les résultats du système réglementaire. Une telle approche permettrait de spécifier les normes de performance...

Cet ouvrage examine les principes économiques qui sous-tendent les systèmes fiscaux les plus efficaces et fournit un cadre en vue de comparer les taxes et les redevances à l’échelle internationale. Il analyse les effets potentiels d’une réforme des taxes et des redevances du secteur...

Dans ce rapport sur La réforme de la réglementation des chemins de fer en Russie, quelques-uns des plus éminents spécialistes mondiaux examinent la restructuration du secteur. Les chemins de fer, ayant souffert d’une sévère insuffisance d’investissements, sont engagés dans une...

This report examines the form regulation should take in rail freight markets to promote efficiency in railways and the wider economy. It analyses issues of monopoly, scale economies, competition, mergers, ownership and the structure of the rail industry. Experience in North America, Australia,...

With the removal of many trade policy barriers, further international economic integration depends largely on the reduction of trade costs originating in the transport sector. This Round Table presents three papers focusing on the structure and development of international transport costs over...

The linkage between transport and economic development is a highly contentious issue which has generated considerable debate and an abundant literature. There is a firmly-held belief among politicians that investment in transport infrastructure promotes economic development and, by extension,...

This ECMT Round Table, hosted by the Hellenic Institute of Transport in Thessaloniki, Greece, focused on regional integration in the context of multilateral trade liberalisation, the effects on market structure of liberalising trade in transport services, interaction of the liberalisation of...

Much research has focussed on the negative aspects of transport (emissions, noise, congestion and safety problems), particularly with respect to road traffic. The ECMT decided to organise a Round Table which would consider the transport sector differently, by looking at the benefits of different...