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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"natural monopoly"”.
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Universal mobile telephone standard (UMTS) licensing : recent European experience and the South African case by Nicolas Theopold.
… industry was long regarded to be one of "natural monopoly". Technological development has, however, changed the situation in the industry fundamentally: with the introduction of digital wireless telephony (also called "GSM " or "second generation (2G)), competition could effectively be …
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Examining telecommunication industry efficiencies in light of regulatory reform
… of the telecommunications industry's apparent natural monopoly. The promise of regulation was to act as a surrogate to competition in controlling the monopolist. Regulation should require the monopolist to operate as close to a competitive marginal cost as possible. With effective regulation, …
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Fiscal decentralization and urban public transport
… can be justified on different grounds: equity, natural monopoly and, particularly with the increasing motorization rate, externalities produced by private transport (congestion, pollution, road accidents) especially in urban areas. In addition, there is a belief that transport investments …
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A comparative international review of power sector reform and its impact on access to electricity by poor communities
… 1980's, the electricity industry was viewed as a natural monopoly, and the concept of economies of scale reinforced this point of view. However, with dramatic technology improvements, it became possible to generate electricity competitively in smaller power plants, and thus alternatives to …
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Ownership, efficiency and the modern enterprise : a theoretical perspective
… such as imperfect competition. The case of the natural monopoly is especially important, because there is no scope for improving allocative efficiency by increasing competition. Governments attempt to address this problem by regulating or nationalising these monopolies and then enforcing a …
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Driving toward monopoly : regulating autonomous mobility platforms as public utilities
… system is likely to tend toward a natural monopoly. This view is corroborated by key informants as well as recent industry trends. In order to better anticipate the characteristics of this emerging platform, I look back at the developmental trajectories of two classic public …
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A model-based approach to regulating electricity distribution under new operating conditions
… the electricity distribution grid, a regulated natural monopoly. Existing regulatory schemes were not designed for these new technologies and may not provide distribution companies with adequate remuneration to integrate the new technologies. To investigate how regulation should change in the …
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An Exploratory Analysis of Public Resource Online Auctions
… auction goals. Because public resources are natural monopoly, specialty assets shared by the public and have long time usage, the government should design a mechanism to find the maximum value of the resources and to allocate them to the bidder who has the biggest probability to realize his …
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Efficient and "fair" pricing under New Zealand’s power distribution sector reforms : a model of intertemporal cross subsidies and economic depreciation
… the premise that electricity distribution is a natural monopoly, and a key desired outcome has been efficient and “fair” prices— those which allow electricity distributors to make a “fair return” on their network investments, while ensuring that consumers face prices which are “subsidy-free”. …
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The Dragon Takes Flight: China's Journey Toward Building Its C-919 Large Passenger Aircraft and Its Impact on the US and Boeing
… $340 billion.</p> <p>With the aviation industry naturally driven toward a natural monopoly, the Chinese government has agreed to not only subsidize the C919's development, removing the potential risk associated with launching a technologically advanced aircraft, but upon the aircraft's arrival, …
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Electricity service utilities in the GCC : steps towards a common regulatory reform
… model. Subsequently, activities that have natural monopoly characteristics such as transmission and distribution are to be separated and subject to incentive based regulation. The study recommends that the role of the GCC Interconnection Authority be restricted to transmission and system …
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Electric power network economics : designing principles for a for-profit independent transmission company and underlying architectures for reliability
… a transmission provider (TP) who exists as a natural monopoly and provides network capacity to generation and distribution companies under the strict oversight of a regulator. With the introduction of a market mechanism there are a couple of new categories of uncertainties that are not …
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The role of legal frameworks in enabling transparency in water utilities’ regulation
This thesis evaluates transparency in the context of water utilities’ regulation by comparing legal frameworks in three jurisdictions: Victoria (Australia), England (United Kingdom) and Jakarta (Indonesia). Each of these jurisdictions is selected because of their particular ownership and regulatory …