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Incentive Regulation: Expectations, Surprises, and the Road Forward
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Forty years have passed since an inflation-adjusted price cap, widely called RPI-X, was proposed as a way of controlling prices in the UK’s newly privatised monopoly telecommunications company by a form of incentive regulation. The paper traces developments since then in several jurisdictions, within the context of a wider field of changing regulatory governance involving legislatures and governments as well as regulatory agencies. The focus is on, first, the experience of increasing complexity of the incentive schemes adopted, and second on the growing political salience of regulatory decisions which adds goals such as net zero, with more direct quantitative targets, to maximising consumer welfare. The implications of these changes for regulatory interventions are considered.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cave, M.
- Affiliations
- London School of Economics and Political Science (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Cave, Martin
- ORCID
- Cave, Martin
- Venue
- Review of Industrial Organization
- Published
- 2024-08-19
- Volume
- 65
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 431-453
- ISSN
- 0889-938X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-7160
- OpenAlex
- W4401709309
- Cited by
- 13
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4
- FWCI
- 4.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- dx.doi.org
- Locations
- Review of Industrial Organization (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Regulation and Compliance Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Merger and Competition Analysis
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Transport and Economic Policies
- Keywords
- incentive regulation, price caps, telecommunications regulation, privatization, regulatory governance, net-zero targets, consumer welfare, regulatory complexity
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