Dubin and Rothwell (1990) use details of insurance premiums to develop a methodology for inferring the value to nuclear operators of the Price-Anderson liability limit from but misinterpret the terms of the insurance contracts for which the premiums are paid. This leads them to overstate the...

Under price-cap regulation, economic gains can be unlocked by permitting "trades" which do not make consumers worse off. We propose a simple method for "refereeing" such trades, based on compensating variation and utilizing Fisher's ideal price index. It is theoretically preferred to the...