In many countries hospital regulation undergoes fundamental change. In reaction to steadily increasing costs … pricing turns out to be more favorable, though not perfect. -- yardstick competition ; regulation ; hospital market …, authorities switch from cost of service regulation to prospective payment systems (PPS). While it seems clear that this new scheme …

dynamic generation settings. Through application in a stylized two-node network, we find that incentive regulation may perform … motivates further research aimed to characterize optimal regulation for transmission expansion in the context of renewable …

-efficient production level for an incentive regulation of distribution system operators (DSOs). With nearly 900 DSOs operating in the … German electricity sector, of which 200 subject to incentive regulation, the issue of heterogeneity of DSOs has to be …

To date, the distributive implications of incentive regulation on electricity transmission networks have not been … efficiency under price-cap regulation have not yet been identified. To discern these parameters is the motivation for the … price-cap incentive regulation for electricity transmission. We find that a regulator's use of ideal (Laspeyres) weights …

The informationally simple approach to incentive regulation applies mechanisms that translate the regulator’s objective …