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Profit‐Sharing Regulation: An Economic Appraisal
Author(s) -
MAYER COLIN,
VICKERS JOHN
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
fiscal studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.63
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1475-5890
pISSN - 0143-5671
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5890.1996.tb00235.x
Subject(s) - profit sharing , schools of economic thought , sociology , library science , management , economics , political science , law , computer science , neoclassical economics
The stock market, take-over bidders, executive pay setters, perhaps Stephen Littlechild himself, even last summer's weather, all seem to have been undermining RPI-X price-cap regulation. Until recently, price-cap regulation was regarded as demonstrably superior to US-style rate-of-return regulation, and regulatory reform in several countries has embraced price-cap regulation. But in Britain, where price-cap regulation originated, the case now appears to be less compelling: price-cap regulation is perceived by some as conferring unwarranted profits on the utilities and imposing unsustainable demands on regulators. As a consequence, many people believe that we are slipping inexorably into some form of profit regulation