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The network industries have been undergoing a process of reform, where liberalisation is one of the main features. This thesis studies the effect of liberalisation, with and without competition, on the incumbent's incentives to innovate. A model of incumbe ...
In the context of liberalization in the public utility sectors, performance criteria have mainly focused on efficiency and effectiveness. However, the realization that restructuring based on the latter criteria has not been consistently successful in the w ...
This paper empirically assesses the effect of liberalisation and competition on innovation in the postal sector. The analysis is restricted to end-to-end competition. The effect on the incentives to innovate of public ownership, letter volume, and other co ...
This paper addresses the question of the coherence in the infrastructures. More precisely, it examines the articulation between technical and institutional coherence. It assumes that a certain degree of such coherence is necessary for infrastructures (netw ...
Network industries, such as electricity, railways and air transport, are very complex technical, economic, and political systems in which the interplay of technology and institutions has a significant impact on performance. While the performance of the net ...
The electric power industry in European Union is undergoing profound regulatory and operational changes. The underlying rationale behind these transformations is to move only highly monopolized vertically-integrated industry from a centralized operation ap ...
The electricity markets worldwide have distinctive particularities due to some political and historical reasons. However, principal guidelines of market design remain very similar. The main feature of deregulation is to introduce a competition into the gen ...
Private sector participation and liberalisation call for a greater and more efficient role for sector‐specific regulation. This necessitates a balanced and stable institutional regulatory framework to accommodate both public intervention and market dynamic ...
This thesis describes the development of three conceptual models built to serve as decision support tools in liberalised electricity markets. The introduction of competition, higher uncertainty and decentralised planning requires new planning and analysis ...
New entrants in postal markets usually set up delivery networks by concentrating on urban areas and large business customers. This implies that they operate their network highly centralized - at least in early phases of entrance. ...