Infrastructures : time to invest /

Infrastructures : time to invest /

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Imprint:Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2008.
Description:223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:WRR rapporten aan de regering ; 81
Rapporten aan de regering.
Subject:
Infrastructure (Economics)
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Finance.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Netherlands.
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Netherlands -- Finance.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Infrastructure (Economics) -- Finance.
Netherlands.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7904464
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Other authors / contributors:Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regeringsbeleid (Netherlands)
ISBN:9789053566053
9053566058
9789048501311
9048501318
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-218).
In English; summaries in Dutch and English.
Table of Contents:
  • Summary in Dutch
  • Executive summary
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Why this report?
  • 1.1.1. The vital (but often neglected) role of infrastructures
  • 1.1.2. The effects of integration and interdependence
  • 1.2. Regime change in infrastructures
  • 1.2.1. Five modes of regime change
  • 1.2.2. Two stages of regime change: 'Type I' and 'Type II' market failures
  • 1.2.3. The changing interaction between the public and the private
  • 1.2.4. Changing actors, various levels
  • 1.3. The fundamental dilemma: The mission paradox?
  • 1.3.1. Definition of the problem
  • 1.4. Investment in infrastructures - a necessary focus
  • 1.4.1. Critical investment decisions
  • 1.4.2. A sector-wide focus on investment
  • 1.4.3. Public values
  • 1.5. Challenges on investment decisions in infrastructures
  • 1.5.1. Technological change
  • 1.5.2. New sources of investment gaining ground and diminishing public ownership/control
  • 1.5.3. Climate change
  • 1.5.4. The European dimension
  • 1.6. Approach
  • 1.7. Conclusion
  • 2. Regime change and investment in infrastructures
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. The role of infrastructures
  • 2.3. The specifics of investment in infrastructures
  • 2.4. Regime change: An incomplete process
  • 2.5. Defining liberalisation, privatisation, unbundling, corporatisisation and internationalisation
  • 2.5.1. Liberalisation
  • 2.5.2. Privatisation
  • 2.5.3. Unbundling
  • 2.5.4. Corporatisation
  • 2.5.5. Internationalisation
  • 2.6. Continuous regime change and hybrid arrangements
  • 2.6.1. Intended and unintended consequences
  • 2.6.2. Direct and indirect consequences
  • 2.7. Function and governance
  • 2.8. Results of regime change: Numerous and heterogeneous actors and multi-levels
  • 2.9. Conclusion
  • 3. A new constellation of actors
  • 3.1. Introduction
  • 3.1.1. Regime change: Rival actors, multiple principals and splintered arenas
  • 3.2. Splintered arenas
  • 3.3. New actors
  • 3.4. Multiple principals and multiple agents
  • 3.5. Hybrids
  • 3.5.1. Hybrid organisations
  • 3.5.2. Public-private partnerships
  • 3.5.3. Key observations with regard to hybrids
  • 3.5.4. Changing role of government in multiple actor/multiple principal settings
  • 3.6. Conclusion
  • 4. Infrastructures in a multi-level arena
  • 4.1. Introduction
  • 4.2. Functional internationalisation of infrastructures
  • 4.3. The European Union facilitating investment decisions in infrastructures
  • 4.3.1. Internal market-related policies
  • 4.3.2. Trans-European Networks (TENs)
  • 4.3.3. Critical infrastructures policies
  • 4.4. The EU constraining investment decisions in infrastructures
  • 4.5. New types of governance at the EU level: Governance through networks and agencies
  • 4.5.1. Introduction
  • 4.5.2. Different types and developments
  • 4.5.3. Accountability issues
  • 4.6. Conclusion
  • 5. Regime change and public values in infrastructures
  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. What are public values in infrastructures?
  • 5.2.1. Public values or public interests?
  • 5.2.2. The debate in the early stages of regime change
  • 5.2.3. Public values and investment in infrastructures
  • 5.2.4. The dynamics of public values
  • 5.2.5. Concluding remarks: Approach towards public values
  • 5.3. Institutional arrangements to realise public values
  • 5.3.1. Independent economic regulation and public values
  • 5.3.2. Contracts and concessions and public values
  • 5.3.3. Self-regulation and public values
  • 5.3.4. Concluding remarks: The need for review of the initial responses
  • 5.4. Options for the review of the institutional arrangements
  • 5.4.1. Review of the independent regulator
  • 5.4.2. Bringing the state back in
  • 5.4.3. The two options combined
  • 5.5. Conclusion
  • 6. Regime change and the investment in energy infrastructure
  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Energy infrastructure and public values
  • 6.3. Regime change in the Dutch energy sector
  • 6.3.1. The past
  • 6.3.2. Regime change: New primary actors, new interest groups
  • 6.3.3. Regime change: Policy, public values and supervision
  • 6.3.4. Regime change: New markets and new transactions
  • 6.4. The regulatory regime in the energy sector: Static efficiencies and unforeseen consequences
  • 6.4.1. Regulation of tariffs and networks investment
  • 6.5. Future energy sector challenges
  • 6.5.1. Changing supply patterns
  • 6.5.2. The challenge of climate change
  • 6.6. Examples
  • 6.6.1. The gas sector
  • 6.6.2. Conflicting policy and regulatory objectives
  • 6.6.3. Underground storage and transport: Where natural gas and carbon meet
  • 6.6.4. The development of CO2 sequestration facilities
  • 6.7. Experiences from abroad: Australia
  • 6.8. Conclusion
  • 7. Conclusions and recommendations
  • 7.1. Introduction - The challenges ahead
  • 7.2. Regime change
  • 7.2.1. The changing role of government under regime change
  • 7.2.2. Regime change: From a 'Type I' to a 'Type II' strategy
  • 7.3. Public values in infrastructures
  • 7.4. A new actor and a multiple level constellation: Consequences of the diagnosis
  • 7.4.1. Heterogeneous actors and multiple levels
  • 7.4.2. Distrust and uncertainty, risks and rewards
  • 7.4.3. Investment and its functions
  • 7.4.4. Different effects in different infrastructures
  • 7.5. Towards a strategic policy framework: Redefine, realign and recalibrate
  • 7.6. Pillar I - Defining and redefining roles and responsibilities
  • 7.6.1. The role of government
  • 7.6.2. The role of ministers in evolving sectoral road maps
  • 7.6.3. The role of independent regulators
  • 7.6.4. New roles for regulators?
  • 7.6.5. New roles in system coordination
  • 7.6.6. Avoiding blurring of roles and interests
  • 7.7. Pillar II-Realigning goals and resources: Exploring ways to join-up and connect actors and levels
  • 7.7.1. Joined-up action at the political level
  • 7.7.2. Joined-up action at the regulatory level
  • 7.7.3. Conferral of concurrent powers
  • 7.7.4. Multi-level joining up
  • 7.7.5. Learning from Brussels?
  • 7.8. Pillar III - Recalibrating checks and balances
  • 7.8.1. A national super fund for infrastructures?
  • 7.8.2. Strategic public shareholdings
  • 7.8.3. Procedural checks and balances
  • 7.8.4. Multilevel checks and balances
  • 7.9. Time to invest
  • Annex Characteristics of the physical infrastructures: An indicative inventory
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
In Memory of Wesley J. Holland through the Holland Foundation bookplate

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