Efficiency and productivity analysis is a central concept in incentive-based regulation of network utilities. However … adjustment of capital stock or production capacity, is problematic under incentive regulation with ex-post regulatory treatment …, regulated revenue. This paper analyses the dynamic behaviour of inefficiency for a balanced panel of 128 Norwegian electricity …

The absence of one broadly accepted design template for liberalised electricity markets induces regulatory competition … accelerate or impede the move to one standard market design in the electricity sector. It reveals that market design convergence … the Florence School of Regulation. In contrast, the United States' Federal Energy Regulatory Commission lacks support …

In order to achieve overall economic efficiency, incentive regulation of electricity distribution utilities must … signals to generation and load connected to the network. This paper is concerned with the latter aspect of regulation. The …

issues and lessons for best practice implementation of benchmarking in electricity regulation. …Since the early 1980’s, many countries have implemented electricity sector reform, many of which have bundled … increasing number of countries are also adopting incentive regulation to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly …

This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and … relation between sector regulation and competition law. Our intention is to offer a basis for comparison and counterarguments … American- and open to third parties, system for access to facilities. Futhermore, we note that recent regulation - Third Energy …

could not find any evidence that (ownership) unbundling and incentive regulation affect R&D expenditures of the utilities. …&D spending of electricity utilities. Building on a panel data set including the biggest European utilities from eight EU … of regulation on R&D investment. Nearing competition has a dampening effect on R&D spending, but once the market and …

sector regulation and objectives as a context within the process of implementation of competition law in the energy sector … and third, we will investigate how sector regulation in energy sector incorporates competition law principles and affirms … combined with the need for effectiveness and focus on other than competition objectives of sector regulation and we will result …

In the EU electricity industry, many Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) have ownership both of electricity …