This volume focuses on incentive regulation and competition. While much of the regulatory action is taking place in … including electricity. The book reviews topics including price caps, incentive regulation, market structure and new regulatory …

and Price Caps in Telecommunications -- 6 Constant and Variable Productivity Adjustments for Price-Cap Regulation -- 7 A … Sequential Mechanism for Direct Price Regulation -- 8 Incentives for Cost Reduction Under Price-Cap Regulation -- 9 The Quality … of Regulation in Regulating Quality: A Proposal for an Integrated Incentive Approach to Telephone Service Performance …

Regulation and Economic Analysis: A Critique Over Two Centuries argues that long experience with the practice of … regulation creates a broad anti-intervention consensus among economists. This consensus is based on comparison of real … exaggerate both sides of the argument. Regulation and Economic Analysis seeks to show the depth of the discontent, develop …

Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation …

Regulation Under Increasing Competition brings together practitioners, regulators, and economists to examine the …

represent the best new research on various topics in public utility regulation, including topics in antitrust law, the … environmental impact of public utility regulation, incentive regulation, price-cap regulation, and contractual relationships …

This book is based on a conference on `Regulation and the Evolving Nature of Postal and Delivery Services: 1992 and … postal policy and the role of the Universal Postal Union; regulation and terminal dues; competition, entry and the role of …

constraining costs. Topics include national and state health care reform, price regulation, and regulating quality in health care …

There are few aggregate measures of the amount of regulation in the macroeconomy, despite the enormity of regulation … and its macroeconomic consequences. Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance attempts to increase the awareness of … macroeconomic effects of regulation by providing some descriptions of regulation's scope and channels as well as providing …

Analysis -- 5 Recent Models: Arbitrage Pricing Theory -- 6 Recent Models: Valuation of Contingent Claims and Regulation -- 7 … Rate of Return Regulation -- References -- List of Symbols. … regulation for a century. Recent changes in the traditionally regulated markets - electricity, gas, and telephone - have shoved …