The stock market, take-over bidders, executive pay setters, perhaps Stephen Littlechild himself, even last summer's weather, all seem to have been undermining RPI-X price-cap regulation. Until recently, price-cap regulation was regarded as demonstrably superior to US-style rate-of-return...

As a form of negative externality, a natural economic response to systemic risk is to look to taxation to correct it. However, we argue in this paper that the problem of systemic risk is not a standard externality problem. First, a 'polluter pays' approach is inapplicable because the polluter is...

The stock market, take-over bidders, executive pay setters, perhaps Stephen Littlechild himself, even last summer’s weather, all seem to have been undermining RPI-X price-cap regulation. Until recently, price-cap regulation was regarded as demonstrably superior to US-style rate-of-return...