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Competition and the Regulation of Utilities

Competition and the Regulation of Utilities

Hardcover

Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, Book 7

Business GeneralEconomicsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0792390830
ISBN13: 9780792390831
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 31 1990
Pages: 211
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
companies to diversify may outweigh the costs of doing so, and that some traditional regulatory concerns may be excessively restrictive. The papers by Hillman, Harris, and Jang and Norsworthy, while all relating to individual industries, have lessons for other regulated industries. Hillman's paper, Oil Pipeline Rates: A Case for Yardstick Regulation, deals with the important topic of yardstick regulation for oil pipelines. While his application is highly specific, the potential application of yardstick regulation goes beyond oil pipelines. He reviews the evolution in the law regulating oil pipelines. While showing that some progress has been made in introducing economic efficiency considerations into regulation, he provides a careful critique of the operation of existing regulation and suggests an alternative based upon a yardstick approach. His approach seeks to use competitive market prices as the yardstick, with administration of price discrimination limited to dealing with possible favoritism to subsidiaries and affiliates. Telecommunications Services as a Strategic Industry: Implications for United States Public Policy by Harris and Productivity Growth and Technical Change in the United States Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing Industries by Jang and Norsworthy provide important insights for telecommunications.

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