… ) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) … economic regulatory presence
in the water sector, where states have primacy. Most publicly owned or not-for-profit utilities are …

… A final reason for the rate disparity is that economic regulation may force prices to more …
Virtually all privately owned water utilities are subject to state economic regulation,10 which …

… In many respects, water continues to offer special insight about the essential nature of utility
… , and overview of, economic regulation as applied to the water sector, drawing primarily on …

… institutions of regulation. As it merits an essay in a volume on the New Institutional Economics,
… the institutional determinants of regulatory policy making by looking at regulation as the …

… on water utility reform in Latin America and the Caribbean. In each case study, a regulatory
… There is growing interest in whether conventional economic regulation can improve the …

… failures which arise in the utilities, developing the rationale for regulation, and setting out …
utilities into competitive and monopoly elements as a necessary condition for efficient regulation…

… work on public utility regulation, public choice and the new institutional economics that we
have undertaken jointly and severally since publication of our Public Utility Economics in 1979…

… This report addresses many facets of regulatory alternatives for water utilities in response to
… for economic regulation of water utilities is not unlike that for regulating other public utilities. …

… (unpredictable effects of weather, exogenous change in demand, ...) and uit is an unobservable
measure of technical and economic inefficiency under control of the utility (eg, effort level…

… economic regulation has been contested and redesigned since maximizing the efficiency of
water utilities … and/or investments in a circular economy. For example, climate change and …