Top Recommended Books

ISBN

Price

(est.)

Water Utility Benchmarking. Berg, Sanford, International Water Association

Publishing, April 2010 9781843392729 $115

Accounting for Infrastructure Regulation: An Introduction. Martin

Rodriguez, Pardina Richard, Schlirf Rapti, and Eric Groom, World Bank

Publications, 2008

0821371797 $30

Handbook For Evaluating Infrastructure Regulatory Systems. Ashley Brown,

Jon Stern & Bernard Tenenbaum. The World Bank Group, 2006. 0821365797 $40

The Impact of Private Sector Participation in Infrastructure: Lights,

Shadows, and the Road Ahead. Luis Andres, Vivien Foster, Thomas

Haven, World Bank Publications, 2008.

0821374095 $35

Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management. Cave, Martin, Chris Doyle,

and William Webb, Cambridge University Press, 2007. 0521876699 $65

Regulatory Risk and the Cost of Capital. Burkhard Pedell, Springer, Berlin,

2006 3540308016 $90

International Handbook on Economic Regulation. Michael Crew, David

Parker. Edward Elgar Publisher, 2006

184844172X

$75

Electricity Market Reform, First Edition: An International Perspective.

Fereidoon Perry Sioshansi, Wolfgang Pfaffenberger. Elsevier Science,

2006.

008045030X $180

Books on Regulation Recommended Publications

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International Training Program on Utility

Regulation and Strategy. This program is

designed to enhance the economic, financial,

and strategic knowledge of our participants

from around the world.

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Top Recommended Books (continued) ISBN Price

(est.)

Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume 2: Technology

Evolution and the Internet. Martin Cave, Sumit K. Majumdar, and Ingo

Vogelsang, North-Holland, 2006

0444514236 $165

The Regulation of Investment in Utilities: Concepts and Applications. Ian

Alexander, Clive Harris, World Bank Publications, 2005. 082136152X $22

Reforming Infrastructure: Privatization, Regulation and Competition.

Ioannis N. Kessides, World Bank and Oxford University Press, 2004. 0821350706 $35

Fundamentals of Financial Management: The 10th Edition Brigham, Eugene

F. and Joel F. Houston. New York: The Dryden Press Harcourt Brace

College Publishers, 2003.

0324178298 $142

Primer on Efficiency Measurement for Utilities and Transport Regulators.

Tim Coelli, Antonio Estache, Sergio Perelman, Lourdes Trujillo, World

Bank Institute Development Studies, 2003.

0821353799

$24

Accounting for Poverty in Infrastructure Reform: Learning from Latin

America's Experience Antonio Estache, Vivien Foster, and Quentin

Wodon, Washington, D.C.: The World Bank Group, 2002.

0821350390 $22

The Economics of Regulation. (2nd edition) Kahn, Alfred E. MIT Press,

1996. 0262610523 $50

Leadership, Management & Economics

ISBN

Price

(est.)

Tools for Institutional, Political, and Social Analysis of Policy Reform: A

Sourcebook for Development Practitioners. Jeremy Holland, World Bank

Publications, 2007

0821368907 $35

Governance Reform: Bridging, Monitoring, and Action. Brian Levy, World

Bank Publications, 2007 0821370324 $25

Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities. Coelli,

Time and Denis Lawrence, editors, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar,

xiii-380, 2007.

1845423178 $130

International Handbook on Economic Regulation. Michael Crew & David

Parker, editors. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006. 184376671X $225

Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Lencioni, Patrick M. Jossey-Bass 2002 0787960756 $17

Privatization, Restructuring and Regulation of Network Utilities. Walras-

Pareto Lectures, by David M. Newberry, MIT Press, Boston, MA, 2002. 0262640481 $31

Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading.

Martin Linsky, Ronald A. Heifetz Harvard Business School Publishing

2002

1578514371 $22

Leadership, Management & Economics (continued)

ISBN

Price

(est.)

Private Initiatives in Infrastructure: Priorities, Incentives and Performance.

Berg, Pollitt, Tsuji, Edward Elgar Publishing Glensada House, 2002 1843760002 $130

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don’t.

Collins, Jim HarperCollins Publishers, 2001

0066620996

$28

Privatization, Deregulation and Economic Efficiency. Kagami, Mitsuhiro

and Tsuji, Masatsugu, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, 2001. 1840643633 $150

Industry Structure and Pricing: The New Rivalry in Infrastructure. Jamison,

Mark A. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. 0792377087 $169

The Evolving Bargain - Strategic Implications of Deregulation and

Privatization. Willis Emmons, Harvard Business School Press, Boston,

MA 2000

0875849016 $35

Restructuring and Managing the Enterprise in Transition. Crum, R. World

Bank 1998 0821336584 $35

Managing the Regulatory Process: Design, Concepts, Issues, and the Latin

America and Caribbean Story. Guasch, J. Luis, and Pablo Spiller,

Washington, D.C.: The World Bank Group, 1999

0821344978

$45

Regulation & Deregulation: Policy & Practice in the Utilities & Financial

Services Industries. McCrudden, Christopher, Oxford University Press,

1999.

0198268815 $320

Electricity ISBN

Price

(est.)

Electricity Market Reforms: Economics and Policy Challenges. Lev S.

Belyaev. Springer; 1st edition, 2010.

1441956115 $119

Service Quality Regulation in Electricity Distribution and Retail (Power

Systems). Fumagalli, E., Schiavo, L., and Delestre, F. Springer; 1st

edition, 2010.

3642092519 $109

Fundamentals of Energy Regulation. Lesser, Jonathan A., PhD and Leonardo

R. Giacchino, PhD. Public Utilities Reports, 2007. 9780910325196 $129

Energy Utility Rate Setting, Lowell E. Alt Jr., Lulu.com, 2006 1411689593 $22

Energy Services for the Urban Poor in Africa: Issues and Policy Implications

Bereket Kebede and Ikhupuleng Dube, editors, African Energy Policy

Research Network (AFREPREN), Zed Books, Ltd., 2004, 297 pp.

1842775588 $105

Electricity (continued) ISBN

Price

(est.)

Understanding Electric Power Systems Jack Cassaza and Frank Delea, IEEE

Press, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003, 210 pp. 0471446521 $93

Electricity Economics: Regulation and Deregulation Geoffrey Rothwell and

Tomas Gomez, editors, IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003, 278

pp.

0471234370 $78

Competition in European Electricity Markets: A Cross-country Comparison

Jean-Michel Glachant and Dominique Finon, editors, Edward Elgar

Publishing 2003, 367 pp.

1843761785 $180

Making Competition Work in Electricity. Sally Hunt, John Wiley & Sons,

New York, 2002. 0471220981 $66

Power System Economics: Designing Markets for Electricity Steven Stoft,

IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002. 0471150401 $57

Power Politics: Equity and Environment in Electricity Reform Navroz K.

Dubash, editor, World Resources Institute, 2002. 1569735034 $30

Regulatory Institutions in Liberalised Electricity Markets. OECD, 2001. 9264185836 $75

Energy Market Reform Competition in Electricity Markets. OECD, August

2001. 9264185593 $75

A Single European Market for Electricity? (Monitoring European

Deregulation Series, 2) Lars Bergman, Gert Brunekreeft, Chris Doyle,

and David Newberry, CEPR, 2000.

1898128421

$45

Telecommunication ISBN

Price

(est.)

Telecommunications History & Policy Into the 21st Century. Fulle, Ronald

G. RIT Press, 2010. 1933360399 $25

Regulation and the Evolution of the Global Telecommunications Industry.

Gentzoglanis, A., and Henten, A., editors. Edward Elgar Pub, 2010. 1848445881 $119

Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition: The Complete Global

Source. (2nd Edition) Goleniewski, Lillian and Kitty Wilson Jarrett,

Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006 Boston, MA.

0321427610 $60

Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications (CESifo

Seminar Series). Illing, Gerhard and Ulrich Klüh, MIT Press, 2004. 0262090376 $37

The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume I:

Traditional Telecommunications Networks Edited by Gary Madden,

Edward Elgar Pub, 2003

1840642726 $215

Telecommunication (continued) ISBN

Price

(est.)

The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume II:

Emerging Telecommunications Networks Edited by Gary Madden,

Edward Elgar Pub, 2003

1840642963 $180

The International Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume

III: World Telecommunications Markets Edited by Gary Madden,

Edward Elgar Pub, 2003

1840643412 $265

Handbook of Telecommunications Economics. Martin Cave, Sumit K.

Majumdar, and Ingo Vogelsang, North-Holland, 2002 0444503897 $108

Closing the Gap in Access to Rural Communication: Chile 1995-2002. Bjorn

Wellenius, World Bank Discussion Paper, 2002. 0821350927 $15

Cost Proxy Models and Telecommunications Policy: A New Empirical

Approach to Regulation Gasmi, F., Kennet, D., Laffont, J.J., and W.

Sharkey, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002

0262072378 $48

Competition in Telecommunications The Munich Lectures, Jean-Jacques

Laffont, Jean Tirole, 2001. 0262621509 $24

Universal Service: Competition, Interconnection and Monopoly in the

Making of the American Telephone System Mueller, Milton L., Jr. AEI

Press, 1998

0844740632 $62

Telecommunications Politics: Ownership and Control of the Information

Highway in Developing Countries Bel Mody, Johannes M. Bauer, and

Joseph D. Straubhaar, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1995.

0805817522 $120

Telecommunications Pricing: Theory and Practice Mitchell, Bridger M. and

Ingo Vogelsang. AEI Studies in Telecommunications Deregulation

Cambridge University Press, 1992.

0521426782 $65

Water ISBN

Price

(est.)

Regulation of Water and Wastewater Services: An International Comparison

Marques, Rui Cunha, Center of Urban and Regional Systems (CESUR),

2010

9781843393412 $216

Institutional Governance and Regulation of Water Services: the Essential

Elements. Rouse, Michael. International Water Association, xvi-223,

2007.

1843391341 $100

Water (continued) ISBN

Price

(est.)

The Political Economy of Water Pricing Reforms Dinar, A., ed. Oxford,

U.K.: Oxford University Press for the World Bank, 2000 019521594X $50

Spilled Water: Institutional Commitment in the Provision of Water Services

William Savedoff and Pablo Spiller, Washington, D.C.: Inter-American

Development Bank, 1999

1886938563 $22

The Water Business: Understanding the Water Supply and Wastewater

Industry Hyman, Leonard S., editor Public Utilities Reports, 1998

0910325715

$65

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ISBN

Price

(est.)

Handbook For Evaluating Infrastructure Regulatory Systems. Ashley Brown,

Jon Stern & Bernard Tenenbaum. The World Bank Group, 2006. 0821365797 $40

Accounting for Infrastructure Regulation: An Introduction. Eric Groom,

Richard Schlirf Rapti, & Martin Rodriguez Pardina. The World Bank,

2008.

0821371797 $30

Review of Risk Mitigation Instruments for Infrastructure: Financing and

Recent Trends and Development. Tomoko Matsukawa & Odo Habeck.

The World Bank, 2007.

0821371002 $15

Infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Developments

and Key Challenges. Marianne Fay, Mary Morrison. The World Bank,

2006.

0821366769 $25

Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and

Measurement of Brazilian Regulators. Paulo Correa, Carlos Pereira,

Bernardo Mueller,& Marcus Melo. The World Bank, 2006.

0821366092

$15

Water, Electricity and the Poor: Who Benefits from Utility

Subsidies?, Kristin Komives, Vivien Foster, Jonathan Halpern, and

Quentin Wodon, The World Bank, 2005.

0821363425 $25

Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions: Doing it Right J.

Luis Guasch, World Bank Institute, 2004. 0821357921 $25

Spanish Language ISBN

Price

(est.)

Principios de Derecho Público Económico Gaspar Ariño Ortiz, 1999. 8484448096 $78

La Regulación Económica de los Servicios Públicos Miguel Angel Lacheras,

Ariel Económica, 1999. 8434421488 $27