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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"price cap regulation"”.
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Productivity of the Regional Bell Operating Companies Under Rate-of-Return and Price-Cap Regulation
… exchange carriers under a new regulatory scheme: price-cap regulation. Price caps were intended to "remedy" the ills of traditional rate-of-return regulation. They were to provide incentive for the telephone companies to adopt innovative technology, cost-cutting measures and provide telephone …
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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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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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Impact of local competition and regulation on deployment of advanced telecommunications services for businesses
… the impact of local competition and government regulation on the deployment of advanced telecommunications services for business in the United States. These services include packet switching, digital signal level (DS) technologies and synchronous optical network (SONET) – optical carrier (OC) …
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Three Essays on Regulation in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Markets
… of this dissertation is to investigate how regulation and deregulation impacts hospital performance, its persistence effect and the different impact on drug markets. The authorities designed programs and policies to regulate hospitals and pharmaceutical markets, aiming at improving hospital …
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Electric power network economics : designing principles for a for-profit independent transmission company and underlying architectures for reliability
… such that an adequate level of transmission capacity is provided for trading energy services between generators and loads over long-term. Before the restructuring process all of the electric services are provided by a so-called vertically integrated utility. A vertically integrated utility is …