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World Bank - 2012

Regulating infrastructure utilities can be extremely complex and fraught with risks of political interference and capture by interest groups, especially in countries with little tradition of politically independent government agencies. To deal with these challenges, policymakers and regulators...

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Checks and Balances in Utility Regulation The U.K. Experience

Green, Richard - 2012

In the United States the courts have long been involved in the oversight of regulators. In the United Kingdom, which created its utility regulators from scratch in the 1980s, an alternative system was sought. This system centers on three concerns: the procedure followed by the regulator, the...

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Has Price Cap Regulation of U.K. Utilities Been a Success?

Green, Richard - 2012

profits. While some analysts have suggested annual profit-sharing regulation, the practical problem is that annual profit …

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The Impact of Regulatory Change on EU Energy Utility Returns : The Three Liberalization Packages

Tulloch, Daniel J. - 2017

The European Union's (EU) energy sector is changing due to major policy reforms. In this article, we examine the impact of major legislative changes which were designed to induce competition in the energy sector: the three liberalization packages. Competition was expected to benefit the industry...

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Managing the Intersection of Utilities Regulation and EC Competition Law

Monti, Giorgio - 2013

Utilities regulation in the Member States is always subject to the application of EC competition law. However, this … undermines the effectiveness of utilities regulation and the European Courts should deploy a more flexible standard than that … demarcate the borderline between competition law and sector regulation but a case-by-case assessment should be carried out to …

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On Restructuring, Regulation, and Competition in Utility Industries : Experience in the United Kingdom and Implications for Latin America

Powell, Andrew - 2011

powers. In addition, the extensive use of price cap rather than rate-of-return regulation. A difference is that, arguably …

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Independent Utility Regulators : Lessons from Monetary Policy

Stern, Jon; Levine, Paul; Trillas, Francesc - 2015

This paper explores the similarity of the underlying economic problems that lead to the establishment of (a) independent central banks to operate national monetary policies and (b) independent regulatory agencies for telecommunications and other utility service industries. We show that, in both...

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Successes and failures in regulating and deregulating utilities : evidence from the UK, Europe, and the USA

Robinson, Colin (ed.) - 2004

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International handbook on economic regulation

Crew, Michael A. (ed.); Parker, David (contributor) - 2006

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Principal Agent Relationships and UK Regulated Utilities

Kassim, Hussein; Price, Catherine Waddams - 2005

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