Augmenting consumer welfare was a key justification behind the reform of utilities from the 1980s. But, three decades … later, evidence is mounting that consumer satisfaction with household utilities is quite uneven. Moreover, governments … application of this technique to the analysis of satisfaction with household utilities across multiple countries. We find strong …

principles of price formation and order of tariffs, surplus and limit indexes in utilities sector.” This resolution makes it …

To what extent should public utilities regulation be expected to converge across countries? When it occurs, will …

preferences, and also of von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities for choices under uncertainty. We show that with a finite number of … choices there exist no continuous anonymous aggregation rules that respect unanimity, for such preferences or utilities. With …-Morgenstern utilities. With a finite number of choices, these spaces are proven to be noncontractible. With infinitely many choices, on the …