We consider a model featuring a single-product natural monopoly, which faces evaders, i.e., individuals that may not … pay the price. By exerting a costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. To maximize the total surplus, a regulator sets … the price, the level of deterrence effort, and socially costly transfers to ensure the monopoly’s participation. We obtain …

We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly … breaks-even. With costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. Under unit demand and fixed quality, price is independent of …

We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public … utilities. To maximize total surplus, the regulator sets the price and socially costly transfers, ensuring that the monopoly … breaks-even. With costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. Under unit demand and fixed quality, price is independent of …

costs in a so-called base year. Such regulation is employed, among others, to govern electricity distribution operators in …. A connected set of price caps exists so that a hybrid regulation consisting of any element in this set and the cost …

begins by characterizing the optimal regulation of a monopoly supplier that is better informed than the regulator about its …. Yardstick regulation, procedures for awarding monopoly franchises, and optimal industry structuring are analyzed. The chapter … commitment powers are limited. The chapter then analyzes the design of practical policies, such as price cap regulation, that are …

We consider a model featuring a single-product natural monopoly, which faces evaders, i.e., individuals that may not … pay the price. By exerting a costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. To maximize the total surplus, a regulator sets … the price, the level of deterrence effort, and socially costly transfers to ensure the monopoly's participation. We obtain …

This paper studies the effect of soft-budget constraints in a pure adverse selection model of monopoly regulation. We … regulatory set-up in which firms are free to enter natural monopoly markets and to choose their price and output levels as in the …-up allows governments to avoid re-funding moneyloosing firms and that welfare is larger than under traditional regulation where …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on the regulation of natural … monopolies. It covers alternative definitions of natural monopoly, public interest regulatory goals, alternative regulatory … institutions, price regulation with full information, price regulation with imperfect and asymmetric information, and topics on the …