Price capping and peak-load pricing in network industries

Gert Brunekreeft

This paper examines the effects of various price-cap rules on peakload pricing. The issue recently gains practical importance in regulated network industries. The formal approach reveals that efficiency properties of various price-cap rules are, notwithstanding some problems, fairly good. A discussion of some practically relevant objections suggests that these objections may be not sufficiently convincing to prohibit (or restrict) peak-load pricing. Overall, a strong case can be made for allowing price-cap regulated firms the flexibility to apply peak-load pricing, if the alternatives are to have either no peak-load pricing or have the regulator prescribe the peak-load structure.

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Year of publication:	2000
Authors:	Brunekreeft, Gert
Publisher:	Freiburg i. Br. : Inst. für Verkehrswiss. und Regionalpolitik
Subject:	regulation \| peak-load pricing \| network-industries \| Netzregulierung \| Access regulation \| Lastmanagement \| Demand-side management \| Anreizregulierung \| Incentive regulation \| Telekommunikationspreis \| Telecommunications price \| Theorie \| Theory

Extent:	Online-Ressource (29 S.)
Series:	Diskussionsbeiträge / Institut für Verkehrswissenschaft und Regionalpolitik. - Freiburg, Br. : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2158953-7. - Vol. 73
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat Reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/47612 [Handle]
Classification:	D4 - Market Structure and Pricing ; L51 - Economics of Regulation ; L96 - Telecommunications
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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