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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Incentive Regulation"”.
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Incentive Regulation with Benchmarking in the Electricity Distribution Industry
… 3, I empirically investigate the effect of incentive regulation with DEA benchmarking on operational efficiency using a panel of electricity distribution firms in Brazil. In Chapter 4, I examine the effect of restructuring and retail competition on cost reduction using a sample of US …
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Regulation of Quality of Service in Electricity Distribution Networks
It has been commonly recognised that incentive regulation provides strong incentives for cost reduction. However, the incentives for cost reduction may lead to degradation of service quality. Quality of service is becoming regulated; service quality incentive schemes, service quality targets, …
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Modeling Competition and Investment in Liberalized Electricity Markets
… wholesale markets, and network investments and incentive regulation. The former is studied based on the case of the German electricity market with respect to ex-post market power analysis and ex-ante remedy development. First an optimization model is designed to obtain the competitive benchmark …
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Regulation and Performance: Evidence from the Telecommunications Industry
… This analysis is motivated by the form of incentive regulation in force in the industry, which links future price increases allowed by the regulator to certain measures of the operators performance. Chapter 1 investigates embodied technical change in the U.S. industry relying on rm-level …
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Economic regulation of electricity distribution utilities under high penetration of distributed energy resources : applying an incentive compatible menu of contracts, reference network model and uncertainty mechanisms
… - present new challenges for the economic regulation of electricity distribution utilities. In particular, regulators are likely to face increased uncertainty regarding the evolution of network uses and the efficient cost of network investments and maintenance, as well as an increased …
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Three empirical essays on mergers and regulation in the telecommunications industry
… consists of three essays on mergers and regulation in the U.S. telecommunications industry. An abstract for each of the three essays follows. Essay 1: This study has attempted to measure the productivity growth associated with 25 incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) over the period …
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Die Anreizregulierung in der Elektrizitätswirtschaft Deutschlands
Die deutsche Energiewirtschaft befindet sich im Umbruch. Ein neuer staatlicher Ordnungsrahmen wurde geschaffen. Zentrales Element für die Regulierung der Stromnetze ist die „Anreizregulierung“ ‒ simulierter Wettbewerb, zentral gesteuert von der Bundesnetzagentur, um missbräuchliches Verhalten …
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Efficiency and Restructuring in Regulated Energy Networks: Evidence from Germany and the US
Although the German framework of incentive-based energy regulation appears to be well-defined because it draws from international experience and eliminates several present drawbacks existing with revenue-cap regulation doubts of industry and politicians concerning the application of benchmarking …