regulation for utilities firms has made the task of setting an adequate cost of equity more difficult. Firstly, Legal Unbundling … regulation schemes has reinforced the importance of setting the equity return adequately. The approaches chosen by regulatory …

With the introduction of incentive regulation in many network industries, different approaches how to remunerate … invested capital have been used. Under incentive regulation, many regulators remunerate the regulated asset base with a ….e. finding the right balance between equity financing and debt. Taggert (1981) shows that rate-of-return regulation creates an …

study the effect of regulation on companies' operating fundamentals, growth, leverage, and equity returns. We find that …

With the introduction of incentive regulation in many network industries, different approaches how to remunerate … invested capital have been used. Under incentive regulation, many regulators remunerate the regulated asset base with a ….e. finding the right balance between equity financing and debt. Taggert (1981) shows that rate-of-return regulation creates an …

We find that Japanese firms that barely met a voluntary minimum pre-COVID-19 regulation (minimal compliers) lost more …