dc.contributor |
Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Departament d'Economia |
dc.contributor.author |
Martín Bofarull, Mònica |
dc.contributor.author |
García Alonso, Lorena |
dc.date.accessioned |
2010-02-23T16:31:02Z |
dc.date.available |
2010-02-23T16:31:02Z |
dc.date.created |
2009 |
dc.date.issued |
2009 |
dc.identifier.issn |
1988 - 0812 |
dc.identifier.other |
T - 2120 - 2009 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2072/43863 |
dc.format.extent |
13 |
dc.format.extent |
368617 bytes |
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application/pdf |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Documents de treball del Departament d'Economia;2009-21 |
dc.rights |
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dc.subject.other |
Ports |
dc.subject.other |
Espanya |
dc.subject.other |
Regulació del mercat |
dc.subject.other |
Competència econòmica |
dc.title |
Some Considerations Concerning Regulation and Competition in the Port Sector |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper |
dc.subject.udc |
338 - Situació econòmica. Política econòmica. Gestió, control i planificació de l'economia. Producció. Serveis. Turisme. Preus |
dc.description.abstract |
The aim of this paper is to discuss the circumstances in which the process of competition
between ports takes place in Spain − circumstances arising from the way the port system
is currently set up and from the regulations governing it. The importance of this matter lies
both in the fact that intensified competition between ports is the way to set about boosting
the efficiency of the Spanish port sector and in the relevance of this business to the
economies of the regions in which the ports are located. It is precisely for this reason that
the reform instituted in 1992 aimed to combine balanced development of the national port
system with the defence of the interests of autonomous regions. To this end the current
regulatory framework provides for the possibility of port authorities drawing up their own
competitive strategies, but makes their implementation conditional upon approval of their
business plan by the Spanish state port authority. The latter body coordinates the national
port system to ensure the guidelines set by the central government authorities are followed
in the field of transport. However, the scale of the differences which exist among both the
size of facilities and their relevant markets on the one hand, and the financial and economic
circumstances of each of them on the other, suggest that each port authority's needs must
be very different. Consequently, their competitive strategies must also be very different. It is
therefore valid to ask whether coping with this diversity calls for different guidelines to
regulate their freedom of action.
Key words: Competition, regulation, port sector
JEL classification numbers: L1, L5, L9 |