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Resetting price controls for privatized utilities : A manual for regulators

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Washington D C The World Bank 1999Description: 109p viiISBN:
  • 0821343386
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.433636 GRE GRE
Contents:
Contents; Foreword ;; Acknowledgments 1. Introduction and Summary: Revising Price Controls ; 2. The Philosophy of Price Controls ; Rate of Return Regulation RPI - X Regulation Profit-Sharing Regulation 3. Procedures for Resetting a Price Control; Information Gathering Analysis and Decisionmaking Announcement Implementation Possible Timetables 4. The Form of a Price Control; Price Structure Price-Basket Controls Revenue-Yield Controls Pass-through Terms The Choice of Price Index Duration of the Control 5. Present Value Calculations ; The Cost-Based Approach The Value-Based Approach The Path of a Price Control 6. Operating Costs ; Cost Projections Yardstick Regulation 7. Investment and the Regulatory Asset Base ; Investment The Regulatory Asset Base Depreciation 8. Revenues ; Revenue Forecasting Unregulated Sales Quality Standards 9. The Rate of Return ; Taxation . Stock Market Measures of the Cost of Capital Other Methods The Cost of Capital for the Gas Industry in Argentina Appendix: Taxes; Tax Effect on Cash Flow After-Tax Cost of Debt Reference; Index
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Contents;
Foreword ;;
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction and Summary: Revising Price Controls ;
2. The Philosophy of Price Controls ;
Rate of Return Regulation
RPI - X Regulation
Profit-Sharing Regulation
3. Procedures for Resetting a Price Control;
Information Gathering
Analysis and Decisionmaking
Announcement
Implementation
Possible Timetables
4. The Form of a Price Control;
Price Structure
Price-Basket Controls
Revenue-Yield Controls
Pass-through Terms
The Choice of Price Index
Duration of the Control
5. Present Value Calculations ;
The Cost-Based Approach
The Value-Based Approach
The Path of a Price Control
6. Operating Costs ;
Cost Projections
Yardstick Regulation
7. Investment and the Regulatory Asset Base ;
Investment
The Regulatory Asset Base
Depreciation
8. Revenues ;
Revenue Forecasting
Unregulated Sales
Quality Standards
9. The Rate of Return ;
Taxation
. Stock Market Measures of the Cost of Capital
Other Methods
The Cost of Capital for the Gas Industry in Argentina
Appendix: Taxes;
Tax Effect on Cash Flow
After-Tax Cost of Debt
Reference;
Index