are privately owned and experience little or no ex-ante regulation of airport charges. On the other hand, airports … activities into the regulation of airport infrastructure charges? This question is addressed in this paper. We discuss basic …

costs in a so-called base year. Such regulation is employed, among others, to govern electricity distribution operators in …. A connected set of price caps exists so that a hybrid regulation consisting of any element in this set and the cost …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on the regulation of natural … monopolies. It covers alternative definitions of natural monopoly, public interest regulatory goals, alternative regulatory … institutions, price regulation with full information, price regulation with imperfect and asymmetric information, and topics on the …

This paper examines price level regulation in two-sided markets with linear demands. We find that (i) price level … regulation increases the price allocation asymmetry when reservation prices differ between the two sides of the market; and (ii … gains from price level regulation are relatively modest for a wide range of cost parameters …

regulation. The profit-sharing rule is a key element of the price choice and our analysis focuses on the two most common ones …. Then, customer-owned firms, like forprofit ones, need some external price regulation. In the second part we address this … customerowned ones, and hence price regulation is affected by the ownership mode. Another factor that is shown to condition the …