Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications

Michael A. Einhorn In continuing to deregulate telecommunications companies, regulators have begun to consider alternative approaches to traditional cost-based price regulation as a means of encouraging monopoly efficiency, promulgating technological innova­ tion, protecting consumers, and reducing...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Einhorn, Michael A. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1991, 1991
Edition:1st ed. 1991
Series:Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 03554nmm a2200325 u 4500
001 EB000625355
003 EBX01000000000000000478437
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 140122 ||| eng
020 |a 9781461539766 
100 1 |a Einhorn, Michael A.  |e [editor] 
245 0 0 |a Price Caps and Incentive Regulation in Telecommunications  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c edited by Michael A. Einhorn 
250 |a 1st ed. 1991 
260 |a New York, NY  |b Springer US  |c 1991, 1991 
300 |a XI, 244 p  |b online resource 
505 0 |a 1 Introduction -- 2 A Non-Bayesian Incentive Mechanism Using Two-Part Tariffs -- 3 Regulating by Capping Prices -- 4 Information, Incentives, and Commitment in Regulatory Mechanisms: Regulatory Innovation in Telecommunications -- 5 Productivity and Price Caps in Telecommunications -- 6 Constant and Variable Productivity Adjustments for Price-Cap Regulation -- 7 A Sequential Mechanism for Direct Price Regulation -- 8 Incentives for Cost Reduction Under Price-Cap Regulation -- 9 The Quality of Regulation in Regulating Quality: A Proposal for an Integrated Incentive Approach to Telephone Service Performance -- 10 Optional Tariffs for Access Under the FCC’s Price-Cap Proposal -- 11 Optional Calling Plans and Bypass Efficiency -- 12 Pricing and Investment Incentives Under Price Ceiling Regulation 
653 |a Economic policy 
653 |a Operations research 
653 |a Industrial organization 
653 |a Economic Policy 
653 |a Operations Research and Decision Theory 
653 |a Industrial Organization 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b SBA  |a Springer Book Archives -2004 
490 0 |a Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy 
028 5 0 |a 10.1007/978-1-4615-3976-6 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3976-6?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 338.6 
520 |a Michael A. Einhorn In continuing to deregulate telecommunications companies, regulators have begun to consider alternative approaches to traditional cost-based price regulation as a means of encouraging monopoly efficiency, promulgating technological innova­ tion, protecting consumers, and reducing administrative costs. Under cost-based regulatory procedures that had been used, prices were designed to recover the regulated company's costs plus an allowed rate of return on its rate base; this strategy was costly to administer, provided no consistent incentives to cost-ef­ ficiency and technological improvement, afforded many opportunities for strategic misrepresentation of reported costs, and may have encouraged both uneconomic expansion of the utility's rate base and cross-subsidization of its competitive services. A category of alternative regulatory approaches can be classified broadly as social contracts. Under the general strategy of social contract regulation, regulators first delimit a group of regulated core services that they continue to regulate and then stipulate a list of constraints that the utility must agree to meet in the future; in exchange, regulators agree to detariff or deregulate entirely other competitive or nonessential services that the utility may offer. As long as no stipulated constraints are violated, the utility may price freely any service; if it reduces costs, it may keep a share of its profits. According to the National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA, 1987), social contract agreements of one form or another have been considered or implemented in a majority of American states