Introduction to the economics of public services regulation

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

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The syllabus

Setting the Stages

  • Overview
  • The Definition and Context of Regulation
  • A quick reminder on the basic theory of monopolies.
  • A first look at the regulation on monopolies
  • How to assess the size of the problem a regulator faces?
  • Stéphane Saussier - About deadweight loss
  • On the diversity and evolution of the theory of regulation
  • Module 1

Insights on monopolies to set up their regulation

  • Overview
  • Getting progressively closer to real life
  • The game of regulation
  • Jose-Antonio Gomez-Ibanez - About the regulatory game
  • Some math to get some useful rules of thumbs
  • Math Insight : Deriving the Lerner index (or Inverse elasticity rule)
  • How to start thinking about the design of regulation in details?
  • Module 2

Regulating monopolies with and without information gap

  • Overview
  • Brief reminder of key concepts
  • David Martimort - About agency theories
  • Optimal regulation under full information
  • Optimal regulation when regulators are uncertain about costs
  • Phil Burns - About regulatory practice
  • Why imperfect costs information makes regulation imperfect?
  • A first look at regulation in practice
  • Math Insight : Computing the Rate of Return (RoR)
  • Impact of information asymmetry on optimal regulatory choice
  • Math Insight : The drivers of regulatory options
  • Module 3

Designing a regulation matching the Institutional Capacity of a country/sector

  • Overview
  • What if the government or regulator is not benevolent?
  • Tina Soreide - About corruption
  • What to do in case of non-benevolence?
  • Francesc Trillas - About regulatory institutions
  • Limited regulatory/Technical capacity
  • Limited commitment capacity
  • Limited accountability
  • Limited fiscal capacity
  • Summing up and comparing optimal solutions
  • Module 4

An insight into the real world practice regulation

  • Overview
  • Moving from theory to practice
  • Putting real numbers on concepts
  • The key formula in the regulation of public service operators
  • Richard Schlirf - About the finances of regulation
  • Financial modeling and the coherence of regulation
  • Module 5

Details on pricing techniques

  • Overview
  • Policy trade-offs and pricing techniques choices
  • Claude Crampes - About price discrimination
  • Pricing in practice
  • First-degree price discrimination
  • Second-degree price discrimination
  • Math Insight : Two-part tariffs
  • Math Insight : Pricing in segmentable markets (1) - Energy
  • Third-degree price discrimination
  • Math Insight : Pricing in segmentable markets (2) - The rules of Thumb
  • Final comments on pricing techniques
  • Module 6

Pricing when regulators care about more than costs and price discrimination

  • Overview
  • Pricing access to networks ton interconnected firms
  • Tommaso Valletti - About consumer losses from pricing
  • Dealing with social concerns in regulation
  • Dealing with quality in regulation
  • Math Insight : Regulating quality
  • Dealing with multiple dimensions of quality in regulation
  • Institutional constraints on the regulation of quality
  • Fitting quality into the allowed regulated average price
  • Module 7

Regulation in the context of privatization of public services

  • Overview
  • Jose-Luis Guasch - About renegociation
  • About the link between regulation and privatization
  • Emmanuelle Auriol - About public vs private financing
  • About the promises of the privatization
  • About how regulation fits into project finance in practice
  • About how regulation could fit into project finance in practice
  • About the future of public-private partnerships and their regulation
  • Module 8

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