Network Industries and Social Welfare: The Experiment that Reshuffled European Utilities - Hardcover

Florio, Massimo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019967485X ISBN 13: 9780199674855

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This book offers a careful scrutiny of energy and telephony reforms and their social impact on households in 15 countries across Western Europe. It concludes that the benefits for consumers are limited and it discusses the reasons why the European reform experiment of network industries is not living up to its promises.

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About the Author

Massimo Florio is Professor of Public Economics and the Jean Monnet Chair 'ad personam' of EU Industrial Policy at the University of Milan, where he has also been the head of the Department of Economics, Business, and Statistics. He has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and in other British Universities, where he started his research on privatisation, leading to his book "The Great Divestiture" (MIT Press, 2004). For more than 20 years, Professor Florio has advised the European Commission, mainly on social cost-benefit analysis of infrastructure projects under the EU regional policy. He has also advised the OECD, the European Investment Bank, the European Parliament, and the World Bank. He is working with CIRIEC to establish a research network on the future of public enterprise.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019967485X
• ISBN 13: 9780199674855
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432