This paper aims to analyse the price regulation method and performance of the water industry in Slovenia. A stochastic …-based price regulation scheme should be seriously considered in order to enhance the performance of Slovenian water distribution …

This paper analyses the foundations of efficient-firm regulation (implemented in Chile for almost two decades), and the … companies. We show that efficient-firm regulation implies setting prices equal to long-run average cost, which is optimal when … the firm is required to be self-financing. In contrast, this is not true of the best-known alternatives, namely regulation …

to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case study of the implementation of the 1994 water reform in Italy in … European Court of Justice. -- regulatory reform ; public policy implementation ; Europeanization ; water sector ; Italy …

's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional … specific heterogeneity. It should further include all institutional aspects of incentive regulation to design incentives that …