Price Regulation and Risk: The Impact of Regulation System Shifts on Risk Components (Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 641) - Softcover

Hierzenberger, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3642120466 ISBN 13: 9783642120466

Publisher: Springer, 2010

Synopsis

Natural monopolies are not subject to the market-based principle of competition. It is necessary to control companies in such positions with regard to pricing. Based on the principal-agent problem, this book explains the topic of price regulation and risk.

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Natural monopolies are not subject to the market-based principle of competition. Consequently, it is necessary to control companies in such monopoly positions with regard to their pricing. In the future, it will become more and more important to consider a possible change in the regulation regime when the future-oriented costs of equity - both in terms of price regulation and for conducting capital market-oriented business valuations - are to be determined. Based on the principal-agent problem, the book explains this topic. The effect of a change in the regulation regime is presented in the form of two studies: an international secondary analysis of the effects on cost of equity based on event studies of the Anglo-Saxon area and a primary analysis based on the Austrian regulation policy for electricity and gas supply systems. The two studies arrive at similar results: The change from a rate-of-return regulation to incentive regulation systems leads to a significant increase in systematic risk.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3642120466
• ISBN 13: 9783642120466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190