Regulation Under Increasing Competition

Regulation Under Increasing Competition
Author: Michael A. Crew
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 146155117X

Regulation Under Increasing Competition brings together practitioners, regulators, and economists to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the telecommunications and electricity industries. This volume reviews such topics as competitive entry, stranded costs, pricing and market mechanisms. It provides a unique perspective on problems in a newly deregulated environment.

Pricing and Regulatory Innovations Under Increasing Competition

Pricing and Regulatory Innovations Under Increasing Competition
Author: Michael A. Crew
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 146156249X

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.

Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries

Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries
Author: Michael A. Crew
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475731922

Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation and competition in regulated industries. Some of the major changes in electricity, gas, and telephone utilities allow for competition in local service through unbundling. This book is of interest to researchers, utility managers, regulatory commissions, and the Federal Government.

Obtaining the best from Regulation and Competition

Obtaining the best from Regulation and Competition
Author: Michael A. Crew
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2006-02-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 038723196X

Deregulation has introduced competition into traditionally monopolistic markets, particularly telecommunications and electric utilities. This book brings together ten essays that were presented at the Center for Research in Regulated Industries at Rutgers University and funded by several regulated companies. The authors, who include young scholars as well as established and highly regarded consultants and researchers, address some of the major issues now facing network industries and regulators - deregulation, competition, stranded assets, diversification, pricing, and mergers and acquisitions.

Pricing in Competitive Electricity Markets

Pricing in Competitive Electricity Markets
Author: Ahmad Faruqui
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1461545293

Electricity markets are being deregulated or face new regulatory frameworks. In such changing markets, new pricing strategies will need to consider such factors as cost, value of service and pricing by objective. Pricing in Competitive Electricity Markets introduces a new family of pricing concepts, methodologies, models, tools and databases focused on market-based pricing. This book reviews important theoretical pricing issues as well as practical pricing applications for changing electricity markets.

Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services

Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services
Author: Michael A. Crew
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475751222

Emerging Competition in Postal and Delivery Services brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the courier industry, regulators, academic economists and lawyers to examine important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as cost and productivity analysis, universal service and entry, demand analysis and the structure of postal payment system, price regulation and competition.

From Regulation to Competition: New frontiers in electricity markets

From Regulation to Competition: New frontiers in electricity markets
Author: Michael A. Einhorn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9401113688

Electric utilities throughout the world continue to face new challenges involving ownership, market structure, and regulation. There are three related issues at hand. First, should ownership be private or public? Second, what operations should be integrated and where is competition feasible? Third, where is regulation necessary and can it be made more efficient? This volume bears directly upon these concerns. The book contains two sections. The first six articles discuss the British electricity experiment that has privatized and disintegrated the nation's generation, transmission, and distribution companies, introduced market competition for power purchases, and implemented incentive regulation for monopolized transmission and distribution grids. The remaining articles focus on the theater in which significant microeconomic issues will continue to emerge, most immediately in the U.K. and U.S.A. -- the coordination and pricing of transmission.

Electricity Pricing in Transition

Electricity Pricing in Transition
Author: Ahmad Faruqui
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780792376002

Electricity Pricing In Transition is written to address the new issues facing utilities, retailers, regulators, and customers in the changing electricity market. It is organized into five sections. Section I deals with the new restructured organization that has emerged from yesterday's vertically integrated, regulated monopoly company. Section II deals with issues in competitive pricing. Section III reviews the role of demand response and product design in today's chaotic marketplace. Given the single importance of California's energy crisis and the fact that it will be studied for years to come, Section IV is devoted to studying the lessons learned from this crisis. The final section of the book deals with markets and regulations. This book will provide practitioners with guidance on how to avoid the major pitfalls in pricing electricity while the market is in transition by drawing upon the insights and lessons learned from the experience of others that are documented in this book.