Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel … procurement practices by coal- and natural gas-fired electricity generating plants in the United States following state …-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a …

efficiency in the context of electricity industry restructuring. Restructuring programs adopted by many U.S. states made … wholesale electricity markets had the largest reductions in nonfuel operating expenses and employment, while investor …

. -- natural gas ; networks ; regulation ; ownership unbundling ; panel data … empirically analyse the effect of ownership unbundling of gas transmission networks as the strongest form of vertical separation … avoid the endogeneity problem and to estimate the long-run effects of regulation. We introduce a set of regulatory …

's Competition Advocacy Program applauds the DOJ for acknowledging the limitations of price regulation and the unintended … regulate competition: (1) the social costs of price regulation in a market economy, (2) the problematic history of price … regulation and its consequences, and (3) examples of modern price regulation and the role of antitrust …

monopoly. It is, therefore, misguided to adopt ex-ante fixed regulation on digital platforms as a whole, as now envisaged by … enforcement on e-commerce giants. Meanwhile, exploitative abuse (or superior-bargaining-position) regulation has attracted … increasing attention, in order to protect suppliers from abuse by e-commerce giants. This regulation needs exacting application …

enables all entities and components integrated in the electricity supply system to exchange information without knowing the … and optimize the use of electricity depend on the availability of a smart grid communication network. End … bridged by deploying an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). Given the current liberalized electricity markets' structure …