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Research Topics at Stake: Wrap-up
…from a post-dinner brainstorming
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The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo Galilei
Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo - 1632 - Firenze
This Galileo’s opera is well-known because it very much contributes to the starting of the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century.
The book is presented as a series of discussions comparing
Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system, over a span of four days in Florence, among two philosophers and a layman.
In reporting this discussion Galileo is often referring to measurements
and data, highlighting their relevance to test qualitative theories and/or hypotheses pertaining to real phenomena.
As in that opera, we are in Florence having a witty debate among
different actors. And measurements & data comes up as one main concern.
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Data collection • What incentives to transmit truthfully information?
– Short & long run
• Interest in and methodology to approach an international benchmarking? – Services for metropolitan areas as a first step – IB-NET – …
• Transparency target? • Quality performance indicators • Other indicators • Natural experiments (randomized trial) and lab
exp.
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Investment • What stick and carrot incentives?
– Quality – Efficiency – Network maintenance – In the last period of the concession contract
• How do you check and make operators report truthfully their investments?
• How the regulator may use “menu of contracts” to make operators reveal their information? 5
Regionalization & Scale
• Scale economies? (regulators and IGOs) • Scale and cost of regulation?
– “Multi-governance” levels? (OECD 2011) – Multi-utility regulation?
• Political economy issues? – Local level capture issues? – Tariffs and investments according to full
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Soft vs. hard regulation?
• Functions/Powers of water regulators
• Centralized vs. decentralized regulation
• Coordination mechanisms among different levels of regulation (OCSE)
• Sunshine vs. yardstick vs. mandatory rule
• Is benchmarking an interesting approach for this sectoral regulation? 7
Multi-sectorial analysis
• Could we learn something from others regulated services (i.e. energy; transport, etc.)? – Investment – Data collection – Optimal size – Affordability and tariffs’ structure – …
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