Hsu, George J.Y.; Chen, Tser-Yieth - In: The Energy Journal Volume 11 (1990) Number 3, pp. 75-90
This paper examines a utility's behaviour under the regulatory constraint of a maximum allowable rate of return. The golden rule of production efficiency, i.e. that the marginal productivities of the input factors are equal, is used as our criterion to examine the utility's economic behaviour....