Resumen

SERRANI, Esteban. Models of Regulation of Natural Gas Public Services in Argentina, 1967-2017. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2020, vol.27, n.2, e1062.  Epub 10-Jun-2020. ISSN 2007-3496.  https://doi.org/10.18232/alhe.1062.

In Argentina, the privatization of public service companies meant the passage from a model of regulation based on a state monopoly to another model of marginal economic efficiency, which, however, had a changing and contradictory course in the last five decades. The article aim is to analyze the marches and countermarched of the different regulatory models of the public service of residential natural gas distribution in Argentina between 1967 and 2017. From the revision of the regulatory legislation of five decades, the reconstruction of prices series of residential tariffs, and the evolution of the companies of the sector in the Argentine top business, it is examined the effect of the institutional models and the determination of energy prices mechanisms on the tariff dynamics, the purchasing power of wages, and the sales of the companies in the sector.

Palabras llave : natural gas; public services; regulatory framework.