Efficiency and productivity analysis is a central concept in incentive-based regulation of network utilities. However …, regulated revenue. This paper analyses the dynamic behaviour of inefficiency for a balanced panel of 128 Norwegian electricity …

incentive regulation of electricity distribution companies, regulators throughout Europe have started regulating quality of …-incorporated regulation. We find that the external cost for quality has not played a major role in Norwegian electricity distribution. …

The world-wide electricity sector reforms have led to a search for alternative and innovative approaches to regulation … to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly electricity networks. A number of countries have used incentive … regulation models based on efficiency benchmarking of the electricity network utilities. While most regulators have opted adopted …

The ‘standard model’ of electricity reform has been refined in many countries but not extended to others. Government is … supplanting the role of regulation. Revised calculations suggest that the benefits of UK electricity privatisation were higher … been less customer switching in some residential electricity markets. There has been significant development of fixed price …

Europe is liberalising electricity in accordance with the European Commission’s Electricity Directives. Different … Emissions Trading system could further transform the electricity industry but may be hampered by slow progress in liberalising …

In order to achieve overall economic efficiency, incentive regulation of electricity distribution utilities must …

The paper surveys the literature and publicly available information on market power monitoring in electricity wholesale …

Quality of service has emerged as an important issue in post-reform regulation of electricity distribution networks … presents a quality-incorporated benchmarking study of the electricity distribution utilities in the UK between 1991/92 and 1998 …/99. We calculate technical efficiency of the utilities using Data Envelopment Analysis technique and productivity change over …

This paper applies the concept of regulatory threat to analyse the electricity supply industry in Germany, where in …-price) discrimination against their parties. The conceptual framework appears to explain developments in the German electricity sector …