Public Utilities: Privatization without Regulation
Year: 2010 Volume: 4 Issue: 1 Pages: 62-78
Abstract: In the last decades, transitional countries of Central and Eastern Europe have engaged in strong privatization programs of public utilities. However, a large part of them did not meet legal and economic conditions needed for a market economy to take place. In this paper, we study how a firm producing a public utility and moving from a public ownership to privatization and thus adopting a profit-maximizing criterion defines its production plans, when an appropriate regulatory environment is still lacking.
JEL classification: C61, D21, L11, L33
Keywords: Privatization, public utilities, dynamic programming
RePEc: http://ideas.repec.org/a/fau/aucocz/au2010_062.html
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