Deadline:
As soon as possible
Program Starts: June 12, 2024
Program Ends: June 21, 2024
Location(s)
Italy
Turin
Overview
We are very glad to announce the launch of the 26th edition of the International Summer School on Regulation of Local Public Services. The Summer School will take place in Turin, Italy, from 12 to 21 June, 2024. The 2024 edition will focus on local public services for circular economy, including case studies on energy, waste and water.
Details
Overview
The School is designed to offer a “full immersion” in user charges regulation of local public services (e.g. waste, water, public transport, district heating, sport facilities) and is mainly addressed to researchers, postgraduate and PhD students, representatives and officials of national and local regulatory authorities, Central Public Administrations, regional and local governments, staff of international organizations, NGOs and consultancies engaged in the design and implementation of regulatory reforms.
More specifically the course is designed as follows:
- Part one is devoted to theory, economic models and analytical instruments for local regulation;
- Part two includes sector analysis of the main industrial local public services (e.g. water cycle, urban waste), country-based cases studies and guest lectures
- Part three offers local site-visits and a practical experience with virtual regulatory case studies developed by working groups.
Topics covered
1. THEORY OF REGULATION FROM ORIGINS TO PRINCIPAL-AGENT, INCENTIVES AND MECHANISM DESIGN:
- Regulation as a game of incomplete information: incentives and mechanism design in local regulation
- Natural / legal monopoly and market failures
- Regulatory Authorities at local level: constraints
- Regulatory targets: price/demand, costs, profits, quality
- Economic analysis for regulation : public and private costs, industrial economic analysis, capital budgeting sensitivity analysis, risk analysis
- Regulatory policies: ex-ante and ex-post regulation, auction, price-cap, IRR, other instruments
2. CASE-STUDIES AND GUEST LECTURES:
- Sector-based case studies (e.g. water cycle, urban waste management)
- Country-based case studies
- Guest lectures by international experts and practitioners
3. ON-THE-FIELD WORK:
- Site-visits to local plants
- Working groups to develop virtual local regulatory case studies: regulatory goals, data collection, information asymmetries management, analysis and definition of tariff regulation or other regulatory aspects
- Production and presentation of a final report
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
The School is addressed to final year undergraduate students, graduates and PhD candidates, official of the Public Administration (municipalities, counties, regional bodies) and regulatory agencies staff who intend to study in depth some of the most relevant issues for regulation, tariff setting and management of local public services, either of environmental interest or not. The programme is designed as an intensive workshop, combining theoretical and practical modules.
Dates
Deadline: As soon as possible
Program starts:
June 12, 2024
Program ends:
June 21, 2024
Program Starts: June 12, 2024
Program Ends: June 21, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
Scholarships
TSR is committed to provide high quality and affordable training, by promoting gender diversity, equity and inclusion. As such, the Turin School provides scholarships to the Summer School for successful candidates based on their presentation of motivation, including career prospects, investment in networking and training, as well as broader contribution to the field of regulation through research, practice and publications. The scholarship covers fee and accommodation at the University residence in Turin.
When filling the registration form, you may request to be considered for a scholarship. The deadline for scholarship requests is 15 February 2024 - 5 pm CEST. The beneficiaries will be contacted by email within 31 March 2024.
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