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 …

regulation, innovation, and economic growth, the process of innovation itself is not well understood. The regulation of … relationship between regulation - both through competition policy and patent law - and innovation, and the corresponding … uncertainty caused by this absence of knowledge. The relationship between regulation and innovation has posed a significant …

This paper examines the regulation of technological innovation direction under uncertainty about potential harms. We …

with the welfare-maximum benchmark and cases of Transco with cost-plus regulation and no regulation. In all tested cases …

We analyze the treatment and impact of idiosyncratic or firm-specific risk in regulation. Regulatory authorities … regulation. In contrast, it is common to apply only a single benchmark, the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), uniformly to ….0 percentage points depending on the size of the firm (in the range of 3% to 40% of total cost of capital). Regulation of …

The informationally simple approach to incentive regulation applies mechanisms that translate the regulator's objective …

the implementation of different regulatory mechanisms (cost plus vs. incentive regulation) and to firm ownership (state vs … to incentive regulation smooth their dividends less than firms subject to cost-based regulation and present higher impact … following the adoption of incentive regulation, they adopt a dividend policy more responsive to earnings variability and more …

To date, the distributive implications of incentive regulation on electricity transmission networks have not been … efficiency under price-cap regulation have not yet been identified. To discern these parameters is the motivation for the … price-cap incentive regulation for electricity transmission. We find that a regulator's use of ideal (Laspeyres) weights …