agreement is reached. A VA can result in higher abatement and net social benefits than regulation if the probability of private …

The article explores the impact of civil regulation on the environmental behaviour of SMEs. It shows that although … civil regulatory pressures are generally subdued, and that conventional regulation continues to be an important driver of … suggested that, in some circumstances, civil regulation provides a bespoke regulatory mechanism which is more likely to bring …

regarding the effectiveness of each regulation by considering how tone was influenced within organizations. Copyright Springer …

With the introduction of incentive regulation in many network industries, different approaches how to remunerate … invested capital have been used. Under incentive regulation, many regula-tors remunerate the regulated asset base with a …, i.e. finding the right balance between equity financing and debt. Taggert (1981) shows that rate-of-return regulation …

, trust/ mistrust, regulation/ deregulation. In order to understand the mechanism of occurrence and absorption of the economic …

Since early 2009, electricity and gas distribution in Germany has been subject to incentive regulation designed to … questions are whether the introduction of incentive regulation in 2009 has had an empirically demonstrable impact on investment … and whether this effect is due to the introduction of incentive regulation per se, or to its specific design. The findings …

Since early 2009, power supply in Germany has been subject to incentive regulation designed to ensure greater … whether the introduction of incentive regulation from 2009 onwards can be attributed to an empirically demonstrable impact on … investment and whether this effect is due to the introduction of incentive regulation per se, or to its specific design. The …

A significant strand of the recent literature suggests that «excessive» regulation and a heavy administrative burden on … OECD markets' regulation) and as regards bureaucratic burdens of doing business (Report Doing Business 2011). Since Italy …