Journal Articles

1-"Towards a Theory of Regulation for Developing Countries: Following Jean-Jacques Laffont’s Lead", (forthcoming) Journal of Economic Literature (with Liam Wren-Lewis)

2- Electricity Reforms in Mali: A Distributional Impact Analysis" (forthcoming) South African Journal of Economics (with D. Boccanfuso and L Savard)

3- "How efficient are African Electricity Companies? Evidence from the Southern African Countries", (forthcoming), Energy Policy (with B. Tovar and L. Trujillo)

4- "Water reforms in Senegal: Distributional impact analysis" (forthcoming) Journal of African Development, (with L. Savard and D. Boccanfuso)

5-"Electricity Reforms in Senegal: A Macro-Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution", (forthcoming), Journal of Development Studies (with L. Savard and D. Boccanfuso)

6-“Measuring quantity-quality trade-offs in regulation: The Brazilian freight railways case” (2007), Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 78 (1), 1–20 (with S. Perelman and L. Trujillo)

7-“Universal Service Obligations in LDCs: The Effect of Uniform Pricing on Infrastructure Access." (2006) Journal of Public Economics, Volume 90, Issues 6-7, August, Pages 1155-1179 (with J.J. Laffont and X. Zhang) 

8-“PPI divorces vs. PPI partnerships in Infrastructure”, Review of Industrial Organization (2006), October

9-“Telecommunications Reforms and Performance” (2006), The CESifo DICE Report (with A Goicoechea and M. Manacorda)

10-“Is Debt Replacing Equity in Regulated Privatized Infrastructure in Developing Countries?, Utilities Policy (2006) Volume 14, Issue 2, June , Pages 90-102 (with S. Jarvela and L. Correia)

11-“How concentrated are global infrastructure markets?” (2005), The Review of Network Economics, Vol 4, Issue 3 - September 2005, pp 220 - 242 (with D. Benitez)

12-“PPPs Experiences in Latin American" ( 2005),  Infrastructure Journal

13-“Are Returns to Private Infrastructure in Developing Countries Consistent with Risks since the Asian Crisis”, Journal of Network Industries (2005), Vol 6 (1),  pp 47-71 (with M.E. Pinglo)

14-“The limits of competition in urban buses in developing countries”, Transport Reviews (2005) (with A. Gomez-Lobo), Vol. 25, 2, pp139-158, March

15-“Do Regulation and Ownership Drive the Efficiency of Electricity Distribution? Evidence from Latin America", Economics Letters (2004) Volume 86, Issue 2, Pages 253-257 (with M. Rossi)

16-“The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America”, Journal of Regulatory Economics, (2004) (with M. Rossi and C. Ruzzier), May, pp. 271-295

17-"Downsizing with labor sharing and collusion”, The Journal of Development Economics (2004), vol. 73, 2, pp 519-540 (with JJ Laffont and X. Zhang)

18-“Sources of Efficiency Gains in Port Reform: A DEA Decomposition of a Malmquist TFP Index for Mexico”, Utilities Policy, (2004) (with B. Tovar and L. Trujillo), December, Vol.12, 4, pp231-230

19-“Las Privatizaciones en América Latina”, Revista Asturiana de Economia, Vol 31 (2004) (with L. Trujillo) pp37-59

20-“Efficiency effects of “Privatization” in Argentina’s Water and Sanitation Services”, Water Policy (2003)  volume 5 issue 4, pages 369-380 (with L. Trujillo)

21-“Processes and accounting matter for regulators: Learning from Argentina’s railways privatization”,  Journal of Network Industries  (2003), Vol. 4, No1, 3-28 (with J. Campos and L. Trujillo)

22-“What Does Privatization Do for Efficiency? Evidence from Argentina’s and Brazil’s Railways”, World Development, (2002), Vol. 30, No11, November (with M. Gonzalez and L. Trujillo), 1885-1897

23-“Telecoms Reform, Access Regulation and Internet Adoption in Latin America”, Economia (2002), Spring, (with T. Valletti and M. Manacorda), 153-218

24-“Efficiency Gains from Port Reform and the Potential for Yardstick Competition: Lessons from Mexico”, World Development, (2002), Vol. 30, No.4, April (with M. Gonzalez and L. Trujillo), 545-560

25-“How different is the efficiency of Public and Private Water Companies in Asia”, The World Bank Economic Review, (2002), Vol. 16,  No1(with M. Rossi), 139-148

26-“The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries”,  Information Economics and Policy, (2002), March, Vol 14, No.1 (with D. Benitez, M. Kennet and C. Ruzzier), 21-38

27-“Making Infrastructure Reform Work for the Poor: Policy Options Based on Latin America’s Experience”, The CEPAL Review (2002) (with V. Foster and Q. Wodon),  December, 105-124

28-“Dealing with Demand Forecasting Games in Transport Privatization”, Transport Policy (2002) (with L. Trujillo and E. Quinet), Vol. 9, No4, October, 325-33

29-“Railways Reform in Brazil”, The Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, (2002), Vol. 1, Number 2, June (with A. Goldstein and R. Pittman), 203-235

30-“Downsizing with Labor Sharing and Collusion” (2002), Journal of World Economy, 9, (with J.-J. Laffont and X. Zhang),)

31-“Utilities Privatization and the Poor: Lessons and evidence from Latin America” (2001),  World Development, July (with A. Gomez-Lobo and D. Leipziger), vol. 29, Number 7

32-“Privatization and Regulation of Transport Infrastructure in the 1990s” (2001), The World Bank Research Observer, Vol 16, Number 1, pp85-108

33-“A few things transport regulators should know about risk and the cost of capital” (2001), Utilities Policy, Volume 9 (with I. Alexander and A. Oliveri), 1-13

34-“Industry restructuring and regulation: Building a base for sustainable growth – lessons from Latin America”, Development Southern Africa (2000), vol. 17, No. 3 (with I. Alexander)

35-«Les Besoins du Pauvre dans la Privatisation d'Infrastructure:Le Rôle des Obligations de Service Universel» (2000),  Revue des Concessions et des Délégations de Service Public (O. Chisari, A. Estache et J.J. Laffont), juin

36-“Evaluating the Minimum Asset Tax on Corporations: An Option Pricing Approach” (1999), Journal of Public Economics, January, Vol. 77, no 1 (with S. van Wijnbergen)

37-“Winners and Losers from the Privatization and Regulation of Utilities:Lessons from a General Equilibrium Model of Argentina” (1999), The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 13, No 2. (with O. Chisari and C. Romero), pp. 357-378

38-“Regulatory Reform, Development, and Institutions” (1999), Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics, Vol. 16, No 7. (in Chinese)(with X. Zhang)

39-“Establishing Regulatory Institutions in China” (1999). Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics, Vol. 16, No. 3. (in Chinese) (with X. Zhang)

40-“Infrastructure Development and Participation of Private Sector” (1999), Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics, 15(11), (with K Zhang),

41-“Infrastructure Concessions, Information Flows and Regulatory Risks” (1999), Public Policy for the Private Sector, December, (with Phil Burns), December

42-“The Brazilian Electricity Sector” (1999), Infrastructure Journal, winter (with M. Rodriguez-Pardina)

43-“Privatización y regulación de infraestructuras de transporte: Un panorama”(1999), Papeles de Economía Española, 82, pp196-209

44-“Regulatory Trade-offs in Designing Concession Contracts for Infrastructure Networks”(1998), Utilities Policy, 7, (with C. Crampes) pp.1-1

45-“The Argentine and Chilean Electricity Sector” (1998), Infrastructure Journal, spring (with M. Rodriguez-Pardina)

46-"La Regulación de Infraestructuras: los casos de la Electricidad y el Agua", (1998), Economistas-Un balance ,Colegio de Economistas, Madrid (with J. Campos)

47-“Infrastructure Development and Participation of Private Sector” (1998),  Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics, Vol. 15, No. 11. (in Chinese) (with X. Zhang)

48-“Designing Regulatory Institutions: Lessons from Argentina, Public Policy for the Private Sector, World Bank (1997), May

49-“Designing Toll Roads Concessions-Lessons from Argentina”(1997), in Private Sector in Infrastructure-Strategy, Regulation, and Risk, The World Bank  (with J. Carbajo)

50-“Competing Private Ports-Lessons from Argentina” (1997), in Private Sector in Infrastructure-Strategy, Regulation, and Risk, The World Bank (with J. Carbajo)

51-“The Real Possibility of Competitive Generation Markets in Hydro Systems-The Case of Brazil”,  Public Policy for the Private Sector, World Bank, (1997) (with M. Rodriguez), February

52-“Decentralizing Public Services: what can we learn from the Theory of the Firm?”, (1996), Revue d’Economie Politique, 106 (1), Jan. Fevr. (with J. Cremer and P. Seabright)

53-“Regulatory lessons from Argentina’s Power Concessions”, Public Policy for the Private Sector, World Bank (1996) (with M. Rodriguez-Pardina), September

54-“Regulating Water Concessions: Lessons form the Buenos Aires Concession”, Public Policy for the Private Sector, World Bank (1996) (with C. Crampes), September

55-“Railways Concessions: Heading Down the Right Track in Argentina?”, Public Policy for the Private Sector, World Bank (1996) (with J. Carbajo), September

56-“Controlling Brazil’s Pollution: Federal vs. State Taxes and Fines”, (1996),  Journal of Infrastructure Systems, vol. 2, No.2, June (with K. Zheng)

57-“How to Commercialize Public Infrastructure Utilities” (1994), Finance and Development, Vol.31, No3, September