Keywords
infrastructure, public capital, public service, obligations
Abstract
This paper aims to prove that during the transformation process in Poland of the sectors of general economic interests due to specific economic characteristics of those sectors and the fact that interests of three groups participating in the decision making in this process: government, management and employees turned out being non controversial prevented loosing the monopoly status they initially enjoyed. The method used was the analysis of the stages of negotiation illustrated by subsequent documents of official strategies chosen for three sectors: railway, electricity and the final result illustrated by the structure of the market. Preventing the monopoly status permitted those groups seeking the rent, the monopoly status created or even demand that rent in the form of subsidy from the public authorities budgets by the threat of the strike which is the grave threat in the sectors delivering the service of general economic interest.
Recommended Citation
Bobińska, K. (2008). The Defense of Monopoly as a Determinant of the Process of Transformation of State-owned Infrastructure Sectors in Poland. Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies, 1(1), 131-150. Retrieved from https://press.wz.uw.edu.pl/yars/vol1/iss1/6
First Page
131
Last Page
150
Page Count
19
Online Available Date
2008
Publisher
University of Warsaw
Publication Date
2008-12-01
