that the eight-year catch-up period allowed in this regulation gives strong incentives to reduce costs since the firms can …Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) based cost norms have attractive properties in the regulation of natural monopolies … to suboptimal incentives. When a regulated firm compares the marginal change in its cost norm with its marginal cost of …

, suggesting that efficiency and productivity analysis has been used to capture economic rent rather than to provide incentives for …

Modern theoretical principles to govern the design of incentive regulation mechanisms are reviewed and discussed … incentive r egulation mechanisms to the regulation of prices and service quality for “unbundled” transmission and distribution … networks are presented and discussed. Evidence regarding the performance of incentive regulation in practice for electric …

<em>Increasing complexity in electricity regulation: who benefits?</em> - After a short description of the evolution of … incentive regulation, this paper explores some of the issues arisen with its implementation in the electricity sector both in …

the role that regulation plays may limit services innovation and in turn may mean that communications infrastructure could … platforms strategy to expose the incentives and impediments to innovation in cloud computing. It assesses how European policy …

incentives for investments consistent with these reserve requirements. …