; 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 …

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 …

. Consistent with standard monopoly theory, the entire price difference can be explained by the fixed price component. Further …, foreign-owned private firms charge an additional price premium relative to domestically owned private firms. A descriptive …

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. …