decision whether to invest or not depends on the probability of regulation and its assumed impact on investment returns … regulation. The regulator, on the other hand, an influence both investment decision and the incumbent's price via his signals on … regulation probability and price. These signals can be considered optimal, if they simultaneously allow investment and minimize …

agierende Jurisdiktionen heraus und konfrontiert diese mit den Gegenargumenten der Theorie des Steuerwettbewerbs. Aus dieser … Gegenüberstellung ergibt sich ein einfacher Vorschlag zur Verbesserung der europäischen Regulierung des mitgliedstaatlichen …

encourages infrastructure investments. The investment incentive of this regulation scheme has been multiply proven in the … assumed importance of regulation for investment incentives. Moreover, investments and, in particular, the resulting change in … provider, the investment also affects the incoming traffic from competitive networks. The European Commission asks national …

This paper addresses the issue of how regulatory constraints affect firm's investment choices when the firm has the … option to delay investment. The RPI-x rule is compared to a profit sharing rule, which increases the x factor in case profits … go beyond a given level. It is shown that these rules are identical in their impact on investment choices, in that the …

capacity and welfare by fitting it to the data of the German electricity market. -- Investment incentives ; demand uncertainty … ; cost uncertainty ; Cournot competition ; First Best ; Second Best ; capacity obligations ; spot market regulation. …

.e. Net Neutrality regulation, will be more network users, more investment, and welfare is higher. If profit …-maximizing platform cannot charge buyers there will be more investment than without the regulation. If on top of not charging buyers …This paper studies, using a two-sided market framework, the impact of regulation on platform's pricing scheme, on …

This paper examines how the interactions between the valuation regime and solvency requirements influence investment …

The informationally simple approach to incentive regulation applies mechanisms that translate the regulator's objective … traditions and is shown to apply well to electricity transmission pricing and investment. In particular, it induces immediately … optimal pricing/investment but is not based on subsidies. In the transmission application, the H-RG-V approach is based on a …

businesses. Because they impose costs and generate uncertainty, these requirements may deter firm investment. To reduce … regulatory uncertainty and favor investment, a principal can choose a rule-based regulatory framework. However, unlike discretion …