; price ; district heating ; Sweden … price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet …' price setting schemes are insensitive to customer complaints, they are significantly influenced by the passive monitoring by …

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 …

question of the problems that might arise when the public sector wishes to implement a type of price regulation, for example …

regulation in the form of price caps can eliminate the exercise of market power by the regulated firm's upstream affiliate. With … the regulator establishing a price cap and an appropriate rate of profit sharing, the upstream affiliate engages in … cost. The welfare-maximizing price cap and profit-sharing rate may be sustained even if the price cap is adjusted upward in …

final consumers. Two components of the electricity retail price are expected to be influenced by feed-in tariff regulation …: the incentive to those firms producing electricity from renewable energy sources and the wholesale price of electricity …. In this study we analyze the effects that feed-in tariff regulation has on electricity retail price for industrial …

the smallest integer such that all the markets are served. This result allows us to disentangle the good aspect of price …