Antonio Estache
Biographic Data
| ID | 5927564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antonio Estache |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antonio |
| FAMILY NAME | Estache |
| SIGNATURE | ESTACHE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Can lotteries improve procurement outcomes?
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make the case for the inclusion of lotteries in public procurement toolkits when governance and institutional weaknesses lead to recurring undesirable contract award outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The authors review different strands of the literature on auctions, corruption and experimental economics and build a simple model reviewing the different benefits and tradeoffs, of including lottery toolbo…
Governance choices and policy outcomes in the Latin American and caribbean electricity sector
Infrastructure Provision, Politics and Religion
This paper analyzes the relationship between access to infrastructure services and support for religious parties based on the evidence produced by a recent democratic experience in Tunisia in which a religious political party, Ennahdha, governed from 2011 to 2014. The experience points to a complex relationship. In the 2011 election, areas with higher access are associated with higher support for Ennahdha than areas with lower access. In the 2014…
The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in the two decades preceding 2014 two member countries, Italy and Spain, experienced productivity decline, while just four member countries, Korea, Ireland, Finland, and the United States, managed to achieve rates of productivity growth in excess of one percent per annum. Rates of productivity growth slowed following the global financial crisis in nearly all member co…
Do economic regulatory agencies matter to private-sector involvement in water utilities in developing countries
Can Supranational Infrastructure Regulation Compensate for National Institutional Weaknesses
Cet article étudie l’impact des caractéristiques institutionnelles de la régulation nationale et internationale sur l’efficacité des deux types de régulation. Il s’intéresse à quatre dimensions de faiblesse institutionnelle : la capacité pratique de réguler, la capacité à rendre des comptes, la capacité d’engagement et la capacité fiscale. En identifiant les coûts et les bénéfices générés par une régulation supranationale, l’analyse montre que ce…
Efficiency and Equity Effects of Taxing the Financial Sector
This paper assesses the effects of applying a VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectorial and redistribution effects of these taxes and shows the importance of the financial openness of the economy on these results.
Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy
How (Un)Even was the Distribution of the Impacts of Mali's Water Privatisation across Stakeholders
This article evaluates quantitatively the welfare effects and their distribution among key stakeholders of Mali's brief water privatisation experience. To do so, we estimate economic worth generation and its drivers from a new use of indicator duality and production theory. We find that: (i) most users, intermediate suppliers, investors and workers benefited; (ii) poor rural users gained much less and taxpayers lost, moreover, (iii) foreign worke…
Infrastructure and Employment Creation in the Middle East and North Africa
No AccessDirections in Development - Infrastructure13 Oct 2013Infrastructure and Employment Creation in the Middle East and North AfricaAuthors/Editors: Antonio Estache, Elena Ianchovichina, Robert Bacon, Ilhem SalamonAntonio Estache, Elena Ianchovichina, Robert Bacon, Ilhem Salamonhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-9665-0View ChaptersAboutPDF (0.9 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLin…
Job Creation through Infrastructure Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
Supranational Infrastructure Regulation
The Intra-country Distributional Impact of Policies to Fight Climate Change
In this paper we present a survey of distributional impact analysis of environmental policies with emphasis on taxes envisaged or implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). These policies usually aim at reducing GHG directly or indirectly. However, they can produce important changes in factor allocation, relative prices in specific countries as well as on world markets when adopted by a large number of countries. Changes in welfare can…
The Oxford Handbook Of Regulation
A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects of Electricity Reform in Senegal on Poverty and Distribution
This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) macro–micro model to explore the distributional effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Senegal. In the first part of the paper we analyse the distribution of electricity in Senegal by income quintiles, between 1995 and 2001. The analysis demonstrates that poor and rural households are not the main beneficiaries of the expanded network. The results of the CGE model show that dire…
Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries
Corruption and infrastructure services
Measuring Quantity‐quality Trade‐offs in Regulation
The quantity vs. quality trade‐offs in network industries are well known from the theoretical literature and have been the subject of many empirical assessments, although mostly for the telecoms and energy sectors. The purpose of this paper is to expand the evidence for the railway sector by documenting the importance of this trade‐off in the context of the Brazilian freight railway industry reform, the first example of a railway sector in which …
Is debt replacing equity in regulated privatised infrastructure in LDCs
Sources of efficiency gains in port reform
Downsizing with labor sharing and collusion
How Different Is the Efficiency of Public and Private Water Companies in Asia?
Several studies have compared the efficiency of publicly and privately owned water utilities and reached conflicting conclusions on the impact of ownership on efficiency. This article provides further evidence by estimating a stochastic cost frontier for a sample of Asian and Pacific regional water companies. The results show that efficiency is not significantly different in private companies than in public ones.
What Does “Privatization” Do for Efficiency? Evidence from Argentina’s and Brazil’s Railways
Efficiency Gains from Port Reform and the Potential for Yardstick Competition
Making infrastructure reform in Latin America work for the poor
Ten years of infrastructure reform in Latin America can teach us a lot about how to make privatization work for the poor. There are macroeconomic and microeconomic transmission mechanisms through which such reform may affect those sectors. This paper discusses policy instruments to increase their access to services and make the latter more affordable for them. The advantages and disadvantages of each instrument are evaluated and examples are give…
Utilities Privatization and the Poor
Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries
Efficiency Gains from Port Reform and the Potential for Yardstick Competition
Sources of efficiency gains in port reform
Job Creation through Infrastructure Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy
Governance choices and policy outcomes in the Latin American and caribbean electricity sector
Corruption and infrastructure services
Is debt replacing equity in regulated privatised infrastructure in LDCs
What Does “Privatization” Do for Efficiency? Evidence from Argentina’s and Brazil’s Railways
Do economic regulatory agencies matter to private-sector involvement in water utilities in developing countries
Making infrastructure reform in Latin America work for the poor
Ten years of infrastructure reform in Latin America can teach us a lot about how to make privatization work for the poor. There are macroeconomic and microeconomic transmission mechanisms through which such reform may affect those sectors. This paper discusses policy instruments to increase their access to services and make the latter more affordable for them. The advantages and disadvantages of each instrument are evaluated and examples are give…
A few things transport regulators should know about risk and the cost of capital
Regulatory trade-offs in the design of concession contracts
Regulatory trade-offs in the design of concession contracts
A few things transport regulators should know about risk and the cost of capital
Utilities Privatization and the Poor
How Different Is the Efficiency of Public and Private Water Companies in Asia?
Several studies have compared the efficiency of publicly and privately owned water utilities and reached conflicting conclusions on the impact of ownership on efficiency. This article provides further evidence by estimating a stochastic cost frontier for a sample of Asian and Pacific regional water companies. The results show that efficiency is not significantly different in private companies than in public ones.
What Does “Privatization” Do for Efficiency? Evidence from Argentina’s and Brazil’s Railways
Efficiency Gains from Port Reform and the Potential for Yardstick Competition
Making infrastructure reform in Latin America work for the poor
Ten years of infrastructure reform in Latin America can teach us a lot about how to make privatization work for the poor. There are macroeconomic and microeconomic transmission mechanisms through which such reform may affect those sectors. This paper discusses policy instruments to increase their access to services and make the latter more affordable for them. The advantages and disadvantages of each instrument are evaluated and examples are give…
Downsizing with labor sharing and collusion
Sources of efficiency gains in port reform
Is debt replacing equity in regulated privatised infrastructure in LDCs
Measuring Quantity‐quality Trade‐offs in Regulation
The quantity vs. quality trade‐offs in network industries are well known from the theoretical literature and have been the subject of many empirical assessments, although mostly for the telecoms and energy sectors. The purpose of this paper is to expand the evidence for the railway sector by documenting the importance of this trade‐off in the context of the Brazilian freight railway industry reform, the first example of a railway sector in which …
Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries
Corruption and infrastructure services
A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects of Electricity Reform in Senegal on Poverty and Distribution
This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) macro–micro model to explore the distributional effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Senegal. In the first part of the paper we analyse the distribution of electricity in Senegal by income quintiles, between 1995 and 2001. The analysis demonstrates that poor and rural households are not the main beneficiaries of the expanded network. The results of the CGE model show that dire…
The Oxford Handbook Of Regulation
The Intra-country Distributional Impact of Policies to Fight Climate Change
In this paper we present a survey of distributional impact analysis of environmental policies with emphasis on taxes envisaged or implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). These policies usually aim at reducing GHG directly or indirectly. However, they can produce important changes in factor allocation, relative prices in specific countries as well as on world markets when adopted by a large number of countries. Changes in welfare can…
Supranational Infrastructure Regulation
How (Un)Even was the Distribution of the Impacts of Mali's Water Privatisation across Stakeholders
This article evaluates quantitatively the welfare effects and their distribution among key stakeholders of Mali's brief water privatisation experience. To do so, we estimate economic worth generation and its drivers from a new use of indicator duality and production theory. We find that: (i) most users, intermediate suppliers, investors and workers benefited; (ii) poor rural users gained much less and taxpayers lost, moreover, (iii) foreign worke…
Infrastructure and Employment Creation in the Middle East and North Africa
No AccessDirections in Development - Infrastructure13 Oct 2013Infrastructure and Employment Creation in the Middle East and North AfricaAuthors/Editors: Antonio Estache, Elena Ianchovichina, Robert Bacon, Ilhem SalamonAntonio Estache, Elena Ianchovichina, Robert Bacon, Ilhem Salamonhttps://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-9665-0View ChaptersAboutPDF (0.9 MB)Other FormatsePUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLin…
Job Creation through Infrastructure Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
Efficiency and Equity Effects of Taxing the Financial Sector
This paper assesses the effects of applying a VAT or a sales tax on (intermediate or final) sales of the financial sector. It uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model calibrated for a small open economy. It highlights the differentiated sectorial and redistribution effects of these taxes and shows the importance of the financial openness of the economy on these results.
Shared Mandates, Moral Hazard, and Political (Mis)alignment in a Decentralized Economy
The Oxford Handbook of Productivity Analysis
According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in the two decades preceding 2014 two member countries, Italy and Spain, experienced productivity decline, while just four member countries, Korea, Ireland, Finland, and the United States, managed to achieve rates of productivity growth in excess of one percent per annum. Rates of productivity growth slowed following the global financial crisis in nearly all member co…
Do economic regulatory agencies matter to private-sector involvement in water utilities in developing countries
Can Supranational Infrastructure Regulation Compensate for National Institutional Weaknesses
Cet article étudie l’impact des caractéristiques institutionnelles de la régulation nationale et internationale sur l’efficacité des deux types de régulation. Il s’intéresse à quatre dimensions de faiblesse institutionnelle : la capacité pratique de réguler, la capacité à rendre des comptes, la capacité d’engagement et la capacité fiscale. En identifiant les coûts et les bénéfices générés par une régulation supranationale, l’analyse montre que ce…
Economics (20 works) · Business (19 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Public-Private Partnership Projects (10 works) · Macroeconomics (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Microeconomics (8 works) · Public economics (8 works)