Pricing and Regulatory Innovations Under Increasing Competition

✍ Scribed by David E. M. Sappington, Dennis L. Weisman (auth.), Michael A. Crew (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series 24
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This volume focuses on incentive regulation and competition. While much of the regulatory action is taking place in telecommunications, the impact of competition and the resultant regulatory change is being felt in other traditional public utilities including electricity. The book reviews topics including price caps, incentive regulation, market structure and new regulatory technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Seven Myths About Incentive Regulation....Pages 1-19
Revising Price Caps: The Next Generation of Incentive Regulation Plans....Pages 21-38
Price Caps and Revenue Caps: Incentives and Disincentives for Efficiency....Pages 39-52
Commissions, Courts, and the Access Pricing Problem....Pages 53-63
Industry Structure and Regulation in the England and Wales Electricity Market....Pages 65-90
Avoiding Artificial Restrictions on Competition....Pages 91-110
Structuring Markets—Determining the Optimal Amount of Regulation: A Discussion of the Changing Electricity Industry....Pages 111-126
Utilities Under Competition: An Options-Based Market Approach....Pages 127-145
Adopting New Regulatory Technologies in the Electric Utility Industry....Pages 147-170
Electric Utility Efficiency with Independent Power Producers....Pages 171-184
Regulation, Competition and Rural Telephone Companies....Pages 185-205

✦ Subjects

Industrial Organization; Energy Economics

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