Institutional Inertia and Industrial Re-Organization: the Case of the Electric Industry in France and Mexico
Article from: OGEL 3 (2004), in Energy, Institutional Reforms and Development in Latin America
English Abstract
Both the Mexican and French electricity industries have been highly influenced for several decades by the notion of public service with a high degree of State intervention in the administration of public utilities holding a complete monopoly on national territory. This besides a historic reluctance of the participation of private players. Certainly current reforms are the driving forces on the individuals of each of these countries (financial pressures in the case of Mexico and imposition of a European executive in the case of France). But important similarities are expected to be ...