Online International Summer School on the Regulation of Local Public Services from Turin School of Regulation

Turin School of Regulation announces the launch of the 23rd edition of the International Summer School on Regulation of Local Public Services. The Summer School will take place online, from September 6th to September 10th, 2021.

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 undergraduate students at their last year, PhD and graduate students and officials from the Public Administration (municipalities, counties, regional bodies) and regulatory agencies.
•  The course lasts one week and is articulated in two parts:
• Theoretical module;
• Industry analysis and case studies.
• The programme will be delivered online via live webinar on Zoom. Participants will be able to interact with each other and professors via the live chat.

Topics Covered:-

• 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
• 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.

The Summer School is a unique experience offering the opportunity to meet an international faculty and participants from all over the world, interested in learning and sharing experiences about local policies and local regulation. 

• Participation in the program is free.
• The webinar admits a maximum of 500 participants. In case of a higher number of registered participants, curricula will be evaluated on the basis of three main criteria:
• Relevance of applicant's studies and professional experience / current job position to the topics of the Summer School programme
• Balanced geographical distribution of selected participants (OECD / non-OECD members; distribution per continent; inclusion of applicants from Countries non represented in the previous editions)
• Balanced distribution of educational background (e.g. economics; environmental engineering; law; public administration; ...)
• Moreover, in the case of curricula with similar scores, also some attention is given to the selection of profiles with expertise in different sectors relevant to the domain of regulation of LPS (e.g. water cycle, waste, energy, ...). 
• All the lectures are taught in English. A good command of English language is strongly recommended.

About TSR:-

The Turin School of Regulation (TSR) is a network initiative promoted by Foundation for the Environment that intends to offer an international high-level research, education and capacity-building experience. The School adopts a policy-oriented approach, with the aim of spreading the culture and instruments of regulation and regulatory reform at local level, connecting academic research with local policy- and decision-makers.

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