Regulating Utilities with Management Incentives: A Strategy for Improved Performance

by Kurt A. Strasser and Mark Kohler

This book proposes a new approach to the government regulation of utilities. Arguing that traditional command-and-control regulation does not encourage efficient performance, Strasser and Kohler advocate the use of an incentive-based regulatory system and offer a practical, realistic strategy for the successful implementation of such plans within the context of utility regulation. The analysis is supported by a comprehensive survey of the relevant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899303757
• ISBN13: 9780899303758
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"