TY - BOOK AU - Hierzenberger,Michael ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Price Regulation and Risk: The Impact of Regulation System Shifts on Risk Components T2 - Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, SN - 9783642120473 AV - HJ9-9940 U1 - 336 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Imprint: Springer KW - Economics KW - Econometrics KW - Finance KW - Economics, Mathematical KW - Auditing KW - Economics/Management Science KW - Public Finance & Economics KW - Accounting/Auditing KW - Economic Systems KW - Game Theory/Mathematical Methods N1 - Capital Market-Based Calculation of the Cost of Equity -- Methods of Price Regulation -- Empirical Secondary Data Analysis -- The Primary Empirical Study -- Summary of the Work N2 - Natural monopolies are not subject to the market-based principle of competition. Consequently, it is necessary to control companies in such monopoly positions with regard to their pricing. In the future, it will become more and more important to consider a possible change in the regulation regime when the future-oriented costs of equity - both in terms of price regulation and for conducting capital market-oriented business valuations - are to be determined. Based on the principal-agent problem, the book explains this topic. The effect of a change in the regulation regime is presented in the form of two studies: an international secondary analysis of the effects on cost of equity based on event studies of the Anglo-Saxon area and a primary analysis based on the Austrian regulation policy for electricity and gas supply systems. The two studies arrive at similar results: The change from a rate-of-return regulation to incentive regulation systems leads to a significant increase in systematic risk UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-12047-3 ER -