Internprissättningsproblemet i dess vedertagna betydelse är problemet att få två resultatenheter inom samma organisation som handlar med varandra att agera utifrån hela organisationens bästa, trots att de är fullständigt målstyrda och endast bedöms utifrån sitt eget resultat. Detta...

This paper aims at developing the theoretical understanding of revenue capping as a way of regulating monopolistic firms. It is shown that the fact that a standard monopolist regulated by a fixed revenue cap will raise its price above the unregulated monopoly level is robust to two-part pricing....

One anonymous mechanism for monopoly regulation is the Chord-approximation Adjustment Process, CAP, suggested by Vogelsang (1988) where the change in consumer surplus is approximated as an average between a Laspeyres and a Paasche index. The main drawback of this method is an incentive for...

Revenue capping is a common way to regulate monopolistic utilities. A common suggestion when the revenue cap is cost based is that the regulator needs to determine the revenue cap so that both fixed and variable cost components as closely as possible match the true cost of the monopoly. In this...

The performance assessment model for grid companies which is currently being developed by The Swedish Energy Agency has been subject to criticism in different aspects by the grid companies. This paper reports the findings from a survey where the grid companies’ attitudes towards the...

Dejong et.al. (1989) and Avila & Ronen (1999) conduct experimental tests of various transfer pricing mechanisms. The resulting quantity data is transformed to efficiency measures which the authors analyse primarily through t-tests and analyses of variance. The problem in both experiments is that...

The Swedish Energy Agency is currently developing a performance assessment model for grid companies. The model relates total revenue to a standard cost based on a fictitious grid. This paper discusses a major theoretical disadvantage of this regulation principle, i.e. that the short and long...

This paper analyzes the incentive effects of a hybrid revenue cap on a regulated monopolistic firm using non-discriminatory two-part pricing. It is shown that the fixed and the variable part of the cap have different meanings in terms of regulation -- the fixed part of a hybrid revenue cap...

This paper reports the results of a survey study regarding the attitudes towards the Network Performance Assessment Model (NPAM). The NPAM is a revenue cap regulation model that has been developed to evaluate revenue reasonableness of the electricity distribution companies (EDCs) in Sweden. The...

I denna rapport konstateras att intäktstak är en regleringsmodell som dras med två mycket allvarliga långsiktiga problem. För det första måste regleraren bestämma parametrarna i modellen med omsorg, så att den inte ger felaktiga styrsignaler. Eftersom de styrsignaler modellen ger...