Cover: Regulating Infrastructure: Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion, from Harvard University PressCover: Regulating Infrastructure in PAPERBACK

Regulating Infrastructure

Monopoly, Contracts, and Discretion

Product Details

PAPERBACK

Print on Demand

$43.00 • £37.95 • €39.95

ISBN 9780674022386

Publication Date: 09/01/2006

Short

448 pages

7 line illustrations, 29 tables

World

Add to Cart

Media Requests:

Related Subjects

  • Acknowledgments
    • 1. Monopoly as a Contracting Problem
    • 2. The Choice of Regulatory Strategy
  • Part I. Regulatory Politics and Dynamics
    • 3. The Behavior of Regulatory Agencies
    • 4. Capture and Instability: Sri Lankas Buses and U.S. Telephones
    • 5. Incompleteness and Its Consequences: Argentinas Railroads
    • 6. Forestalling Expropriation: Electricity in the Americas
  • Part II. Contract versus Discretionary Regulation
    • 7. The Evolution of Concession Contracts: Municipal Franchises in North America
    • 8. The Rediscovery of Private Contracts: U.S. Railroad and Airline Deregulation [with John R. Meyer]
    • 9. Price-Cap Regulation: The British Water Industry
  • Part III. Vertical Unbundling and Regulation
    • 10. The Trade-off in Unbundling: Competition versus Coordination
    • 11. Regulating Coordination: British Railroads
    • 12. Designing Capacity Markets: Electricity in Argentina [with Martín Rodríguez-Pardina]
    • 13. The Prospects for Unbundling
    • 14. The Future of Regulation
  • Notes
  • Index

From Our Blog

The Burnout Challenge

On Burnout Today with Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter

In The Burnout Challenge, leading researchers of burnout Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter focus on what occurs when the conditions and requirements set by a workplace are out of sync with the needs of people who work there. These “mismatches,” ranging from work overload to value conflicts, cause both workers and workplaces to suffer