; price ; district heating ; Sweden … price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet …' price setting schemes are insensitive to customer complaints, they are significantly influenced by the passive monitoring by …

. Recognizing that payments differ in the urgency with which they need to be settled, Fedwire offers banks a decreasing block-price … schedule. This approach allows Fedwire to price discriminate, charging high fees for urgent payments and low fees for less … urgency for immediate settlement is great enough, banks will respond to marginal price; otherwise, they will respond to …

. Recognizing that payments differ in the urgency with which they need to be settled, Fedwire offers banks a decreasing block-price … schedule. This approach allows Fedwire to price discriminate, charging high fees for urgent payments and low fees for less … urgency for immediate settlement is great enough, banks will respond to marginal price; otherwise, they will respond to …

regulation. The profit-sharing rule is a key element of the price choice and our analysis focuses on the two most common ones …. Then, customer-owned firms, like forprofit ones, need some external price regulation. In the second part we address this … customerowned ones, and hence price regulation is affected by the ownership mode. Another factor that is shown to condition the …

In this paper, we study a new channel to explain firms' price setting behavior. We propose that uncertainty about … deviation increase in oil price volatility leads to a 0.38 percent increase in the markup of firms with average oil exposure. …

extent the price structure reflects the estimated cost structure. We find that (i) banks tend to use two-part tariffs but (ii …

This paper reports the results from a survey on price-setting behavior of a large random sample of Swedish firms …. Prices are found to adjust only infrequently; the median firm adjusts the price once a year. State-dependent pricing is found … research, four of the theories of price rigidity are ranked by the respondents among the top-five places in all three studies. …

question of the problems that might arise when the public sector wishes to implement a type of price regulation, for example …