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heterogeneity and inefficiency, encapsulating the regulatory dilemma in comparative efficiency analysis for incentive regulation. It … with incentive benchmarking regulation that characterizes the European Union. The results confirm the importance of …
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pronounced effects of regulations occur when a regulation is passed and when compliance dates arrive. Our results imply that the …
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We compare the welfare effects of different regulation schemes of electricity distribution utilities. The compared … regulation schemes are fixed price regulation, cost of service regulation, menu of cost-contingent contracts and simple menus of …. Our basic result is that welfare can be improved by changing the cost of service regulation scheme to the menu of …
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Many European countries have sought to increase the efficiency of national railroad companies through a range of reforms: separating infrastructure and operations, creating independent regulatory institutions and providing access to the network to third parties. To estimate the effects of...
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Accounting for network operators' heterogeneity is of crucial importance for regulators. In contrast to observed heterogeneity, the consideration of unobserved differences is far more challenging. Most estimation models try to account for unobserved factors that impact the network operators'...
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incentive regulation and efficiency benchmarking in electricity distribution industries and provides valuable insights for …
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with the welfare-maximum benchmark and cases of Transco with cost-plus regulation and no regulation. In all tested cases …
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subject to a lower powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly significant (about 7%) for firms in the upper …
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The informationally simple approach to incentive regulation applies mechanisms that translate the regulator's objective …
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The informationally simple approach to incentive regulation applies mechanisms that translate the regulator’s objective …
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