Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators

The objective of this report is twofold: to provide a comprehensive assessment of the state of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries in Brazil and to suggest possible indicators for future monitoring. After the introduction, Section 2...

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Main Authors: Correa, Paulo, Pereira, Carlos, Mueller, Bernardo, Melo, Marcus
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Language:English
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Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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spelling okr-10986-70592021-04-23T14:02:27Z Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators Correa, Paulo Pereira, Carlos Mueller, Bernardo Melo, Marcus ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES BENCHMARKING BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT CONSENSUS CONSUMER SATISFACTION CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT DECISION MAKING DECISION-MAKING DECISION-MAKING PROCESS DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES DELEGATION OF POWERS DEREGULATION DISCRETIONARY POWER ECONOMIC REGULATION ECONOMIES OF SCALE EFFECTIVE REGULATION ELECTRICITY SECTOR ENERGY POLICY ENERGY REGULATORS ENERGY SECTOR FEDERAL AGENCIES FINANCIAL AUTONOMY FISCAL CRISES GOOD GOVERNANCE GOOD REGULATORY GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS INDEPENDENT REGULATORS INDEPENDENT REGULATORY INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AGENCIES INDEPENDENT REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRIES INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTIONAL VARIABLES INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS JUDICIARY LATIN AMERICAN LEGAL ACTION LEGAL FRAMEWORK LEGAL STATUS LEGISLATION LEGISLATURE LEGISLATURES LEGITIMACY MAJORITY RULE MOBILITY MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS MUNICIPALITY NATURAL GAS POLITICAL INFLUENCE POLITICAL STABILITY POLITICIANS POOR PERFORMANCE PRESIDENTS PRIVATE OPERATORS PRIVATE SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT PRIVATIZATION PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY PUBLIC HEARINGS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION RAILROADS RAILWAY RAILWAY SYSTEM RAILWAYS REGULATED INDUSTRIES REGULATED INDUSTRY REGULATORS REGULATORY ACTION REGULATORY ACTIVITIES REGULATORY AGENCIES REGULATORY AGENCY REGULATORY ARRANGEMENTS REGULATORY AUTHORITY REGULATORY CAPTURE REGULATORY CREDIBILITY REGULATORY DECISION REGULATORY DECISIONS REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS REGULATORY FRAMEWORK REGULATORY GOVERNANCE REGULATORY INSTRUMENTS REGULATORY OUTCOMES REGULATORY PRACTICES REGULATORY PROCESS REGULATORY SYSTEM ROADS RULES SANITATION STATE AGENCIES STATE AGENCY STATE REGULATORY STATE TRANSPORTATION STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES TARIFF SETTING TECHNICAL STANDARDS TRANSACTION COSTS TRANSITION ECONOMIES TRANSPARENCY TRANSPORT TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES TRANSPORTATION TRANSPORTATION AGENCY UTILITIES VESTED INTERESTS WATER SECTOR The objective of this report is twofold: to provide a comprehensive assessment of the state of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries in Brazil and to suggest possible indicators for future monitoring. After the introduction, Section 2 sets up the analytical framework for the report, identifying key components of regulatory governance, namely, autonomy (political and financial), procedures for decision making, instruments (including personnel), and accountability. Section 3 assesses each of these components in practice, reporting the results of a survey with 21 regulatory agencies in Brazil, which was designed and implemented by the research team in 2005. Section 4 measures regulatory governance based on three related indexes, ranks the Brazilian regulators among themselves, and compares the proposed indexes with two other indicators available in the literature. Section 5 presents the conclusions. 2012-06-04T20:47:19Z 2012-06-04T20:47:19Z 2006 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6828562/regulatory-governance-infrastructure-industries-assessment-measurement-brazilian-regulators 978-0-8213-6609-7 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7059 English en_US Trends and Policy Options No. 3 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research :: Publication Publications & Research :: Publication Latin America & Caribbean America South America Brazil
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topic ACCOUNTABILITY
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES
BENCHMARKING
BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
CONSENSUS
CONSUMER SATISFACTION
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT
DECISION MAKING
DECISION-MAKING
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
DELEGATION OF POWERS
DEREGULATION
DISCRETIONARY POWER
ECONOMIC REGULATION
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
EFFECTIVE REGULATION
ELECTRICITY SECTOR
ENERGY POLICY
ENERGY REGULATORS
ENERGY SECTOR
FEDERAL AGENCIES
FINANCIAL AUTONOMY
FISCAL CRISES
GOOD GOVERNANCE
GOOD REGULATORY GOVERNANCE
GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
INDEPENDENT REGULATORS
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AGENCIES
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRIES
INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
INSTITUTIONAL VARIABLES
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS
JUDICIARY
LATIN AMERICAN
LEGAL ACTION
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
LEGAL STATUS
LEGISLATION
LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATURES
LEGITIMACY
MAJORITY RULE
MOBILITY
MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS
MUNICIPALITY
NATURAL GAS
POLITICAL INFLUENCE
POLITICAL STABILITY
POLITICIANS
POOR PERFORMANCE
PRESIDENTS
PRIVATE OPERATORS
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT
PRIVATIZATION
PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY
PUBLIC HEARINGS
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
RAILROADS
RAILWAY
RAILWAY SYSTEM
RAILWAYS
REGULATED INDUSTRIES
REGULATED INDUSTRY
REGULATORS
REGULATORY ACTION
REGULATORY ACTIVITIES
REGULATORY AGENCIES
REGULATORY AGENCY
REGULATORY ARRANGEMENTS
REGULATORY AUTHORITY
REGULATORY CAPTURE
REGULATORY CREDIBILITY
REGULATORY DECISION
REGULATORY DECISIONS
REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
REGULATORY GOVERNANCE
REGULATORY INSTRUMENTS
REGULATORY OUTCOMES
REGULATORY PRACTICES
REGULATORY PROCESS
REGULATORY SYSTEM
ROADS
RULES
SANITATION
STATE AGENCIES
STATE AGENCY
STATE REGULATORY
STATE TRANSPORTATION
STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
TARIFF SETTING
TECHNICAL STANDARDS
TRANSACTION COSTS
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
TRANSPARENCY
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
UTILITIES
VESTED INTERESTS
WATER SECTOR
spellingShingle ACCOUNTABILITY
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES
BENCHMARKING
BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT
CONSENSUS
CONSUMER SATISFACTION
CONTRACT ENFORCEMENT
DECISION MAKING
DECISION-MAKING
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES
DELEGATION OF POWERS
DEREGULATION
DISCRETIONARY POWER
ECONOMIC REGULATION
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
EFFECTIVE REGULATION
ELECTRICITY SECTOR
ENERGY POLICY
ENERGY REGULATORS
ENERGY SECTOR
FEDERAL AGENCIES
FINANCIAL AUTONOMY
FISCAL CRISES
GOOD GOVERNANCE
GOOD REGULATORY GOVERNANCE
GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
INDEPENDENT REGULATORS
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AGENCIES
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS
INFRASTRUCTURE INDUSTRIES
INSTITUTIONAL ENVIRONMENT
INSTITUTIONAL VARIABLES
INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
JUDICIAL INSTITUTIONS
JUDICIARY
LATIN AMERICAN
LEGAL ACTION
LEGAL FRAMEWORK
LEGAL STATUS
LEGISLATION
LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATURES
LEGITIMACY
MAJORITY RULE
MOBILITY
MULTILATERAL INSTITUTIONS
MUNICIPALITY
NATURAL GAS
POLITICAL INFLUENCE
POLITICAL STABILITY
POLITICIANS
POOR PERFORMANCE
PRESIDENTS
PRIVATE OPERATORS
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT
PRIVATIZATION
PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PUBLIC ACCEPTABILITY
PUBLIC HEARINGS
PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION
RAILROADS
RAILWAY
RAILWAY SYSTEM
RAILWAYS
REGULATED INDUSTRIES
REGULATED INDUSTRY
REGULATORS
REGULATORY ACTION
REGULATORY ACTIVITIES
REGULATORY AGENCIES
REGULATORY AGENCY
REGULATORY ARRANGEMENTS
REGULATORY AUTHORITY
REGULATORY CAPTURE
REGULATORY CREDIBILITY
REGULATORY DECISION
REGULATORY DECISIONS
REGULATORY EFFECTIVENESS
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
REGULATORY GOVERNANCE
REGULATORY INSTRUMENTS
REGULATORY OUTCOMES
REGULATORY PRACTICES
REGULATORY PROCESS
REGULATORY SYSTEM
ROADS
RULES
SANITATION
STATE AGENCIES
STATE AGENCY
STATE REGULATORY
STATE TRANSPORTATION
STATE TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
TARIFF SETTING
TECHNICAL STANDARDS
TRANSACTION COSTS
TRANSITION ECONOMIES
TRANSPARENCY
TRANSPORT
TRANSPORT INDUSTRIES
TRANSPORTATION
TRANSPORTATION AGENCY
UTILITIES
VESTED INTERESTS
WATER SECTOR
Correa, Paulo
Pereira, Carlos
Mueller, Bernardo
Melo, Marcus
Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
America
South America
Brazil
relation Trends and Policy Options No. 3
description The objective of this report is twofold: to provide a comprehensive assessment of the state of regulatory governance in infrastructure industries in Brazil and to suggest possible indicators for future monitoring. After the introduction, Section 2 sets up the analytical framework for the report, identifying key components of regulatory governance, namely, autonomy (political and financial), procedures for decision making, instruments (including personnel), and accountability. Section 3 assesses each of these components in practice, reporting the results of a survey with 21 regulatory agencies in Brazil, which was designed and implemented by the research team in 2005. Section 4 measures regulatory governance based on three related indexes, ranks the Brazilian regulators among themselves, and compares the proposed indexes with two other indicators available in the literature. Section 5 presents the conclusions.
format Publications & Research :: Publication
author Correa, Paulo
Pereira, Carlos
Mueller, Bernardo
Melo, Marcus
author_facet Correa, Paulo
Pereira, Carlos
Mueller, Bernardo
Melo, Marcus
author_sort Correa, Paulo
title Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators
title_short Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators
title_full Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators
title_fullStr Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators
title_full_unstemmed Regulatory Governance in Infrastructure Industries: Assessment and Measurement of Brazilian Regulators
title_sort regulatory governance in infrastructure industries: assessment and measurement of brazilian regulators
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6828562/regulatory-governance-infrastructure-industries-assessment-measurement-brazilian-regulators
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7059
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