Vol.1, No 8, 2000 pp. 81 - 85
UDC 658.115.31 (497.11)

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REGULATION OF NATURAL MONOPOLIES IN SERBIA
Biljana Rakić
Faculty of Economics, University of Niš, Yugoslavia

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Abstract. In Serbia economy traditional system of natural monopolies regulation is maintained, in which state is a sole owner (generally) or an owner of the greater part. It is obvious that deregulation of natural monopolies is necessary, for private capital (especially foreign one) will try to avoid investments into enterprises which are owned by unreliable owner, that our state has been in the recent period, while on the other side, state as an owner has not resources for recovery of those enterprises, majority of which are in poor economic conditions. Even the budgets of developed countries were not able any more to finance high capital - intensive investments in those systems which were caused by dynamic of demand, so that the question arises on possibility of private capital to be invested in this area.

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REGULACIJA PRIRODNIH MONOPOLA U SRBIJI U srpskoj privredi je zastupljen tradicionalni sistem regulacije prirodnih monopola u kome je država jedini (uglavnom) ili većinski vlasnik. Očigledno je da je deregulacija prirodnih monopola neophodna, jer će privatni kapital (naročito inostrani) bežati od ulaganja u preduzeća koja su u vlasništvu nepouzdanog vlasnika, kakvim se pokazala naša država poslednjih godina, dok sa druge strane, država kao vlasnik nema sredstava za oporavak ovih preduzeća od kojih je velika većina u lošem ekonomskom stanju. Budžeti čak i razvijenih zemalja nisu bili više u mogućnosti da finansiraju visoko kapitalno-intenzivne investicije u ove sisteme koje su bile uslovljene dinamikom tražnje, tako da je došlo do preispitivanja mogućnosti učešća i privatnog kapitala u ovu oblast.