This paper reports in succinct form the findings of a study undertaken a number of years ago that sought to measure the relation between risk and rate of return and, thus, to determine an empirical basis for implementing several Supreme Court decisions (Bluefield Waterworks Case, 1923, for one)...

Training on the job, an important element in the formation of human capital, is a particularly promising objective of government policy for the disadvantaged who, because they require a variety of special services and arrangements, are costly to employ initially. Presently, under the NAB-JOBS...

The purpose of this comment is to provide further clarification of the usefulness of Beta as a measure of risk in the regulatory process. Breen and Lerner list several of the problems in using this coefficient and argue that a great deal of caution is necessary when interpreting its meaning, but...

This paper is an analysis of how a firm behaves in the face of uncertainty about demand and cost conditions and a known constraint on the rate of return it is allowed to earn. Under these conditions it is improbable that regulation could force a monopoly to make competitive investment and output...

The purpose of this paper is to formulate the implications of finance theory for rate of return regulation. A variety of problems in finance and the law and economics of regulation are reviewed. Also, a regulatory procedure based on finance theory is proposed for practical use.

This paper develops an econometric model of investment behavior for the regulated industries in the United States. In these industries the firm faces a regulatory constraint; regulatory agencies fix the price of output on the principle of a given rate of return applied to the value of assets as...

Models for energy policy assessment have been developed using both process analysis and econometrics. The process approach provides for the incorporation of information on future technological and structural changes based on detailed engineering studies. The econometric approach is well adapted...

This paper presents a new approach to the quantitative analysis of U.S. energy policy, based on an integration of econometric modeling and input-output analysis. It incorporates a new methodology for assessing the impact of economic policy on both demand and supply for energy within a complete...

In the economic theory of investment behavior the form of the optimal production and investment policy depends critically on the form of technology. The purpose of this paper is to select an appropriate description of technology on the basis of empirical evidence for United States manufacturing...