International

Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge (Sequel)

Publication Date: August 01, 1998

This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being considered by commission officials in the spring of 1996...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia (Sequel)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Aguas de Cartagena: The Privatization of Water in Cartagena, Colombia

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1992, Mayor Gabriel Garcia Romero confronted a situation all too familiar in developing countries--an inadequate and under-capitalized water system. Only 28 percent of Cartagena's households had reliable drinking water. Thirty percent were...

Chile's Water System: The Privatization Debate (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

In 1995, the President of Chile proposed to the legislature several reforms designed to strengthen the agency that regulated the tariffs charged by Chile's water companies. Although a half dozen water companies were private, most of the water...

Office of the Rail Regulator (Abridged)

Publication Date: March 09, 1998

This case describes the first four years of John Swift's tenure as Britain's Rail Regulator and the issues he faced in the fall of 1997. The post of Rail Regulator had been created by the Railway Act of 1993, as part of a plan to break up and...

Price Cap: The UK's Efforts to Regulate Regional Distribution Companies

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

This case focuses on the efforts by Stephen Littlechild, the United Kingdom's electricity regulator in the mid-1990s, to set performance-based rates for the country's 13 electricity distribution companies. The case allows for a class discussion...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru (Sequel)

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

Privatization of Telecommunications in Peru

Publication Date: January 01, 1998

When the administration of Peru president Alberto Fujimori embarks on an ambitious privatization program, it turns inevitably to the nation's creaking telephone system. With but 2.5 phone lines per 100 persons, Peru, in the mid-1990s, had the...

Vaccines for the Developing World: The Challenge to Justify Tiered Pricing (Sequel)

Publication Date: November 01, 1997

This microeconomics case examines the pricing issues related to the sale of inexpensive vaccines for use in developing countries. The case describe the historic success of the United Nations' so-called "tiered pricing" policy. This policy had...

Vaccines for the Developing World: The Challenge to Justify Tiered Pricing

Publication Date: November 01, 1997

This microeconomics case examines the pricing issues related to the sale of inexpensive vaccines for use in developing countries. The case describe the historic success of the United Nations' so-called "tiered pricing" policy. This policy had...

Bangkok's Second Stage Expressway

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This transport privatization case describes the political complications that can accompany a privately-funded infrastructure project. The case tells the story of a Japanese construction firm and its relationship with the government of Thailand...

Buenos Aires-Colonia Bridge: The Project

Publication Date: January 01, 1997

This case recounts the work of a special Argentina-Uruguay bi-national commission convened to examine the economics of a proposed bridge that would link the two countries. The bridge being considered by commission officials in the spring of 1996...