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Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries

Should governments in developing countries promote private ownership and deregulated prices in noncompetitive sectors? Or should they run publicly owned firms and regulate prices at the expense of rents to insiders? A theoretical model is used to answer these normative questions. The analysis focuse...

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Main Authors: Auriol, Emmanuelle, Picard, Pierre M.
Published: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
asymmetric information
budget constraints
consumer surplus
consumers
debt
development economics
duopoly
econometrics
economies of scale
gdp
industrial economics
marginal costs
monopolies
monopoly
natural monopolies
opportunity cost
opportunity costs
perfect information
price increases
profitability
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4495

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