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RESEARCH THEMES
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Spatial and Equity Aspects of Public Service Provision.
- Design of wholesale competitive electricity market. To infer from past experiences
of European Union member states whether competition in these
sectors has actually benefited consumers by lowering prices
and whether regulation has been able to integrate equity
issues in pricing and to address problems such as investments
for the 'last mile connectivity'
- Regulation in postal and telecom markets. To help Indian
regulators and policy makers with practical aspects of regulation
and assessing economic impacts of various regulatory pronouncements
- Financial Market Integration - Decentralisation, federalism,
subsidiarity. To generate interest among European researchers
about regulatory research in India and to generate interest
among Indian scholars and regulators about lessons and experiences
of regulation and competition in sectors hitherto dominated
by publicly owned enterprises.
- Transportation. To explore the common problems of trade-off
between efficiency - defined as the minimisation of the
average access cost - and spatial equity - defined as the
minimisation of the maximal access cost in network-based
infrastructure sectors.
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Financing and Ownership of Infrastructures
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The Architecture of Public Interest: Governance, Regulation and Implementation (new Indian government programme statement - Decentralisation, federalism, subsidiarity)
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