Price regulation and risk: the impact of regulation system shifts on risk components

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. Basedon the principal-agent problem, the book explains this topic. The effect of achange 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 Austrianregulation 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. Important and up-to-date topic International secondary analysis Detailed Primary Study INDICE: Introduction.- Capital Market-Based Calculation of the Cost of Equity.- Methods of Price Regulation.- Empirical Secondary Data Analysis.- The Primary Empirical Study.- Summary of the Work.

• ISBN: 978-3-642-12046-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 180
• Fecha Publicación: 28/06/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés