begins by characterizing the optimal regulation of a monopoly supplier that is better informed than the regulator about its …. Yardstick regulation, procedures for awarding monopoly franchises, and optimal industry structuring are analyzed. The chapter … commitment powers are limited. The chapter then analyzes the design of practical policies, such as price cap regulation, that are …

monopoly outcome. Within the framework of the "passive regulator" that this logic entails, public regulation cannot alter the …The authors explain why the elementary logic of rate-of-return regulation generates not the competitive outcome but the … monopoly outcome, but can only change the form in which the monopoly rent is captured. The authors also explain why it is …

Investment regulation constitutes one of the major difficulties in regulating monopolistic activities such as … sharing contracts can be particularly useful. Moreover, menu regulation could encourage distribution firms to provide …

monopoly problem when the price imperfectly signals quality to the uninformed buyers. We then study the effect of noise on …

The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … the regulator and the monopoly with the regulator acting as the leader of the game. We find that the second-best tax rate …

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation … increases the total surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform imposes positive fees on …

Electricity distribution operators are regulated as monopolies around the world. Incentive regulation is further … applied to relate their allowed revenues (revenue cap) to cost efficiency and investment. Incentive regulation varies cross … distributors by incentive regulation. Using the long time series data, we evaluated the impact of the Norwegian regulation regimes …

-maximizing monopoly might face, while others are specific to the type of command-and-control environmental regulation in place. …An exhaustive comparative statics analysis of a model of a monopolistic firm facing price-cap regulation and a variety …