Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47612 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 73
Publisher: 
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institut für Verkehrswissenschaft und Regionalpolitik, Freiburg i. Br.
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effects of various price-cap rules on peakload pricing. The issue recently gains practical importance in regulated network industries. The formal approach reveals that efficiency properties of various price-cap rules are, notwithstanding some problems, fairly good. A discussion of some practically relevant objections suggests that these objections may be not sufficiently convincing to prohibit (or restrict) peak-load pricing. Overall, a strong case can be made for allowing price-cap regulated firms the flexibility to apply peak-load pricing, if the alternatives are to have either no peak-load pricing or have the regulator prescribe the peak-load structure.
Subjects: 
regulation
peak-load pricing
network-industries
JEL: 
D4
L51
L96
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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