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Author(s): Massimo Florio
ISBN(s): 9780199674855, 019967485X
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Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 019967485X 
ISBN 13: 9780199674855
Author: Massimo Florio

A dramatic change of ownership, regulation, and organisation of essential public services, such as electricity, gas, and telecommunications, has taken place in Europe in less than 20 years. This was not the outcome of spontaneous adaptation, but an entirely top-down policy experiment, mainly conceived in London during Mrs Thatcher’s years, then pursued in Brussels – the ‘capital’ of the European Union – and imposed on more or less reluctant players by laws, directives, regulations, and administrative and judicial decisions. The European reform paradigm revolves around three pillars: privatisation, unbundling, and regulated liberalisation of network industries. These industries, despite the reforms, are still special, as they include core natural monopoly components (the electricity grid, the gas pipelines, the telephony networks, etc.), are often based on complex system integration of different segments (for example of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retail supply), and offer services that have critical social and economic importance, from heating to internet. This book offers a careful scrutiny of energy and telephony reforms and prices paid by households in 15 countries across Western Europe. It attempts to answer such questions as: Are the consumers in Europe happier than they were before the reforms? Do they pay less? Do they get a better quality for the services? Network Industries and Social Welfare provides an overview of the main facts, the conceptual issues, and of the empirical evidence on pricing, perceptions of quality of service, and the issues of utility poverty and social affordability. It suggests that the benefits of the reforms for the consumers have often been limited and that governments should reconsider their overconfidence in regulated market mechanisms in network industries.

Network Industries and Social Welfare The Experiment that Reshuffled European Utilities 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Paradigms, Facts, Predictions
1. Introduction: The policy paradigm
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The EU perspective
1.3 The paradigm’s three pillars
1.4 Asking the questions
1.5 Structure of the book
1.6 Further reading

2. Stylized facts
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Reform indicators
2.3 Reform trends in the telecommunications industry
2.4 Reform trends in the electricity industry
2.5 Reform trends in the natural gas industry
2.6 Price trends and correlation with reform indicators
2.7 Consumer satisfaction
2.8 Summing up
2.9 Further reading

3. Welfare effects: A simple thought experiment
3.1 Introduction
3.2 First sketch of the story
3.3 An illustrative model
3.4 Privatization
3.5 Price regulation
3.6 Unbundling
3.7 Duopoly
3.8 Market entry
3.9 Discussion: Objectives, incentives and regulation
3.10 Conclusion
3.11 Further reading

Part II: Testing the Paradigm
4. Testing the paradigm: Telephone services
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Technological and regulatory change
4.3 Fixed telephony and the European electronic communications market
4.4 Telephony prices
4.5 Using the conceptual model
4.6 Earlier literature
4.7 Data
4.8 Explaining telephone price dynamics
4.9 Mobile telephony prices
4.10 Summing up and a glimpse into the future
4.11 Further reading
4.A.1 Appendix: ECTR scores
4.A.2 Appendix: The 2009 EU reform package for telecoms

5. Testing the paradigm: Electricity
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Technological and regulatory features
5.3 Regulatory issues
5.4 Country features
5.5 Earlier empirical findings
5.6 Data
5.7 Results
5.8 A paradigm reversal? Electricity market reform in the UK
5.9 Concluding remarks
5.10 Further reading
5.A.1 Appendix: ECTR scores
5.A.2 Appendix: Estimating consumer prices using panel data models
5.A.3 Appendix: The Third EU package

6. Testing the paradigm: Natural gas
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Technology, costs, and prices
6.3 Demand, supply, and country features
6.4 Some earlier findings
6.5 Data
6.6 Empirical analysis
6.7 Summing up and open energy policy issues
6.8 Further reading
6.A.1 Appendix: ECTR scores
6.A.2 Appendix: The EU natural gas directives

Part III: Perceptions, Quality, Affordability
7. Double checking: Perceived price fairness
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Learning from what users say
7.3 Some earlier empirical findings
7.4 Data
7.5 Summing up
7.6 Further reading
7.A.1 Appendix: Empirical models for consumer dissatisfaction

8. Quality of service
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Quality of services and user satisfaction
8.3 Some methodological issues
8.4 Descriptive statistics
8.5 A conditional analysis of consumer satisfaction
8.6 An individual fixed-effects approach
8.7 Other empirical approaches
8.8 Objective quality vs. subjective quality: The case of electricity supply
8.9 Summing up
8.10 Further reading
8.A.1 Appendix: Quality of regulation of gas service in the UK
8.A.2 Appendix

9. Affordability of network services, social and territorial cohesion
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Conceptual framework
9.3 Earlier empirical analyses of affordability
9.4 Are tariff structures regressive?
9.5 Competition, switching, and affordability
9.6 Household survey data on deprivation
9.7 Adding the territorial dimension: Regional disparities in essential services
9.8 Dealing with utility poverty
9.9 Conclusions
9.10 Further reading
9.A.1 Appendix: A diagrammatic example of social exclusion

10. Conclusions
10.1 The dominant policy paradigm re-examined
10.2 Implementation: Too little or too much of it?
10.3 Is the consumer dividend fair?
10.4 Is domestic oligopoly a second-best?
10.5 Perceptions, quality, and information
10.6 Affordability and social cohesion
10.7 Is regulating services easier than providing them?
10.8 Ownership, regulation, markets: The role of the EU
10.9 Public services and European citizenship rights
10.10 Beyond the paradigm: Network services as ‘political industries’
10.11 Further reading

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