Second-Generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services

by Basanes, Federico; Willig, Robert; Inter-American Development Bank

• ISBN13: 9781931003018
• ISBN10: 1931003017
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

During the past two decades, some Latin American countries have made pioneering efforts in the design and implementation of reform schemes in infrastructure services. The "first generation of reforms" encompassed widespread privatization, deregulation, and restructuring of the provision of energy, water, telecommunications, and transport services. These reforms have proved generally successful as a way of creating an attractive environment for private investment. Outcomes have been mixed, however, in terms of increased efficiency, coverage, and consumer welfare. Second-Generation Reforms in Infrastructure Services evaluates the current challenges, the "second generation issues," leading to the consolidation of the initial reforms. Experts from academia, industry, regulatory agencies, and international organizations deal with post-privatization dispute settlement mechanisms, access arrangements in network industries, and inroads to effective competition in the reformed industries. Several authors evaluate a set of contractual adjustments resulting from renegotiations and disputes that have taken place since the beginning of the reform process. In an effort to promote competition in the provision of public services, the authors suggest some practical rules for pricing access in network industries. The book presents a dynamic, global vision of second-generation reforms underway in energy markets around the world.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Federico Basanes
Part I. Post-Privatization Disputes and Renegotiations
The Regulation and Contractual Adaptation of Public Utilities in Argentina	13	(38)
Daniel Artana
Fernando Navajas
Santiago Urbiztondo
Post-Privatization Renegotiations and Disputes in Chile	51	(38)
Federico Basanes
Eduardo Saavedra
Raimundo Soto
Private Participation in Infrastructure in Colombia: Renegotiations and Disputes	89	(44)
Juan Benavides
Israel Fainboim
Settlement of Disputes in the Power Sector in Argentina	133	(16)
Juan A. Legisa
Part II. Promoting Competition in the Provision of Public Services: Access Arrangements to Network Industries
Practical Rules for Pricing Access in Telecommunications	149	(28)
J.A. Ordover
R.D. Willig
Efficient Network Access Pricing Rules for Developing and Transition Economies	177	(16)
Jean-Jacques Laffont
Open-Access Issues in the Chilean Telecommunications and Electricity Sectors	193	(30)
Carlos Diaz
Raimundo Soto
Access Arrangements in Argentina's Public Utilities: Electricity, Natural Gas, and Telecommunications	223	(42)
Santiago Urbiztondo
Sebastian Auguste
Federico Basanes
Part III. Highlights of Second-Generation Reforms in Energy Sectors in Latin America and around the World
The Second Generation of Power Exchanges: Lessons for Latin America	265	(18)
Jaime Millan
Retail Competition in Electricity	283	(40)
Paulina Beato
Carmen Fuente
Liberalization of the Gas Sector in Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico	323
Paulina Beato
Carmen Fuente