Pricing and Regulatory Innovations Under Increasing Competition

1. Front Matter

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2. Seven Myths About Incentive Regulation

   • David E. M. Sappington, Dennis L. Weisman

   Pages 1-19

3. Revising Price Caps: The Next Generation of Incentive Regulation Plans

   • Timothy J. Tardiff, William E. Taylor

   Pages 21-38

4. Price Caps and Revenue Caps: Incentives and Disincentives for Efficiency

   • Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer

   Pages 39-52

5. Commissions, Courts, and the Access Pricing Problem

   • William E. Kovacic

   Pages 53-63

6. Industry Structure and Regulation in the England and Wales Electricity Market

   • Frank A. Wolak, Robert H. Patrick

   Pages 65-90

7. Avoiding Artificial Restrictions on Competition

   • Robert Levin

   Pages 91-110

8. Structuring Markets—Determining the Optimal Amount of Regulation: A Discussion of the Changing Electricity Industry

   • Miles O. Bidwell Jr.

   Pages 111-126

9. Utilities Under Competition: An Options-Based Market Approach

   • Chitru S. Fernando, Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer

   Pages 127-145

10. Adopting New Regulatory Technologies in the Electric Utility Industry

    • Andrew E. Huemmler

    Pages 147-170

11. Electric Utility Efficiency with Independent Power Producers

    • Roger R. Rodríguez, Roger Sherman

    Pages 171-184

12. Regulation, Competition and Rural Telephone Companies

    • Kent A. Currie

    Pages 185-205

This volume focuses on incentive regulation and competition. While much of the regulatory action is taking place in telecommunications, the impact of competition and the resultant regulatory change is being felt in other traditional public utilities including electricity. The book reviews topics including price caps, incentive regulation, market structure and new regulatory technologies.

• Options
• communication
• competition
• efficiency
• innovation
• innovations
• market structure
• pricing
• regulation
• telecommunications
• utility

• Center for Research in Regulated Industries, Graduate School of Management Rutgers University Newark, Newark, USA

  Michael A. Crew

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