variety of incentive-based regulation policies. In practice such exercises are often plagued by incomplete knowledge about the … pertinent to regulation contexts often leads to low numbers of cross-section observations, rendering reliable estimation based …

other factors, such as the political agenda and the historical context of the regulation. This sometimes results in some … regulation of the Danish water sector. More specifically, we look at the characteristics of the method the regulator uses to take …

problem. The regulator has, therefore, initiated an extensive effort to try to incorporate supply quality in the regulation …

implications are higher the more heterogeneous the sector is. As an example, we use the Danish benchmarking regulation of the waste …

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based cost norms have attractive properties in the regulation of natural monopolies … that the regulation will induce socially optimal output levels. In this paper, we analytically and numerically examine the … that the eight-year catch-up period allowed in this regulation gives strong incentives to reduce costs since the firms can …

variety of incentive-based regulation policies. In practice such exercises are often plagued by incomplete knowledge about the …-section data. However, the typical oligopolized market structure pertinent to regulation contexts often leads to low numbers of …