This paper compares the outcomes of corporate self-regulation and traditional ex-ante regulation of network access to … monopolistic bottlenecks. In the model of self-regulation, the domestic gas supplier and network owner and the monopsonistic gas …-ante regulation. We find that while industrial self-regulation leads to an exploitation of households, the effect on the foreign …

structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices … network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare …

should be in a separate account from other Pemex investment. -- Natural gas ; strategic pricing ; benchmark regulation ; gas …

In January 2009 Germany introduced incentive regulation for the electricity distribution sector based on results … approaches within the incentive regulation schemes. -- Stochastic frontiers ; latent class model ; electricity distribution … ; incentive regulation …

In this paper we present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and …