Risk and Return for Regulated Industries
- 1st Edition - April 19, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Authors: Bente Villadsen, Michael J. Vilbert, Dan Harris, Lawrence Kolbe
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 8 7 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 2 5 8 8 - 5
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Request a sales quoteRisk and Return for Regulated Industries provides a much-needed, comprehensive review of how cost of capital risk arises and can be measured, how the special risks regulated industries face affect fair return, and the challenges that regulated industries are likely to face in the future.
Rather than following the trend of broad industry introductions or textbook style reviews of utility finance, it covers the topics of most interest to regulators, regulated companies, regulatory lawyers, and rate-of-return analysts in all countries. Accordingly, the book also includes case studies about various countries and discussions of the lessons international regulatory procedures can offer.
- Presents a unified treatment of the regulatory principles and practices used to assess the required return on capital
- Addresses current practices before exploring the ways methods play out in practice, including irregularities, shortcomings, and concerns for the future
- Focuses on developed economies instead of providing a comprehensive global reviews
- Foreword by Stewart C. Myers
Academics and professionals working on the financial and governance aspects of regulated industries worldwide.
Academics and practitioners working on the financial and governance aspects of regulated industries worldwide.
Chapter 1. Motivation: Why a Book Now on the Required Rate of Return?
- Introduction
- Why Regulate Prices in the First Place?
- Why is Determining Reasonable Profits Hard?
- Plan of the Book
Chapter 2. Legal Foundations and Regulatory Frameworks for a Fair Return
- Introduction
- Rate Regulation in the United States
- The Rate Base
- Rate Regulation in Canada
- Rate Regulation in the United Kingdom
- Rate Regulation Elsewhere
- Rate Regulation in Developing Economies
- Interaction of the Regulatory Framework and Cost of Capital
Chapter 3. Financial Asset Pricing Principles
- Introduction
- Risk–Return Trade-off
- What Should We Expect From Models?
- Selecting a Comparable Sample
Chapter 4. The Capital Asset Pricing Model and Variations
- Introduction
- Types of Risk
- The Original Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Capital Asset Pricing Model Implementation Issues and Approaches
- Empirical Challenges to the Capital Asset Pricing Model
- Summing up the Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 5. Discounted Cash Flow Models
- Introduction
- Constant Growth Discounted Cash Flow Model
- Multistage Discounted Cash Flow Models
- Discounted Cash Flow Implementation Issues
- Cautions on the Fundamental Premise of the Discounted Cash Flow Approach
- Summing Up the DCF Model
Chapter 6. Multifactor and Other Cost of Capital Estimation Models
- Introduction
- Risk Premium Model
- Arbitrage Pricing Theory
- Fama–French Models
- Buildup Models
- Comparable Earnings
- Conclusion
Chapter 7. Effects of Capital Structure on Cost of Capital
- Introduction
- Example of Debt's Effects: Home Mortgages
- Research on the Effects of Debt on the Cost of Capital
- Conclusion
Chapter 8. Approaches to Rate Base Measurement
- Introduction
- Inflation Affects Competition and Original Cost Regulation Differently
- Why Does the Tomatoes Theorem Matter?
- Four Approaches to Regulatory Capital Recovery: The Concepts
- Additional Implementation Issues for Inflation-Adjusted Approaches
- Rate Base Methods Outside Canada and the United States
- Summary of Approaches
Chapter 9. Rate of Return Practices in Use
- Introduction
- Practices in the United States
- Practices in Canada
- The United Kingdom (Office of Gas and Electricity Markets)
- The Netherlands (The Autoriteit Consument & Markt)
- Italy
- Australia
- Summary of Approaches to Determining the Rate of Return
- Why Do Different Places Use Different Methodologies?
Chapter 10. Asymmetric Risk: Theory and Examples
- Introduction
- The Cost of Capital Versus the Yield to Maturity on Corporate Bonds
- Relationship to Regulated Returns
- Your Questions Answered
- Potential Remedies
- Asymmetric Risks in Action
- Potential Future “Black Swans”
- Looking Forward
Chapter 11. Emerging Issues and Implications for Cost of Capital
- Introduction
- Reflecting System Shocks
- Alternative Ownership Structures
- Evolving Utility Business Models
- Concluding Remarks
Appendix A. Features That Affect Capital Structure
Appendix B. Further Reading on Approaches to Rate Base Measurement
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 19, 2017
- No. of pages (Paperback): 354
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128125878
- eBook ISBN: 9780128125885
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Bente Villadsen
Dr. Villadsen specializes in finance and accounting matters with an emphasis on the energy industry. She is a frequent author and speaker on regulatory return and risk issues and has testified on rate of return and discount rate matters as well as accounting and damages in many jurisdictions including the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, state regulatory settings, U.S. and international arbitrations, and the U.S. federal court. Dr. Villadsen holds a Ph.D. from Yale University’s School of Management with a concentration in accounting. She has a joint degree in mathematics and economics (BS and MS) from University of Aarhus in Denmark.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal, The Brattle Group, CambridgeMV
Michael J. Vilbert
Dr. Vilbert specializes in cost of capital, regulatory economics, financial planning, income tax disputes, and valuation. He has advised clients around the country on these matters in various investment and regulatory decisions. Dr. Vilbert received his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from the University of Utah, an M.S. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a B.S. degree from the United States Air Force Academy. He joined The Brattle Group in 1994 after a career as an Air Force officer, where he served as a fighter pilot, intelligence officer, and professor of finance at the Air Force Academy.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal, The Brattle Group, San FranciscoDH
Dan Harris
Mr. Harris is an expert in the economics of gas and electricity markets. He has been involved in client engagements across the full spectrum of the energy industry and his clients include energy regulators, competition authorities, gas and electricity network companies, gas buyers and sellers, and electricity generators. Mr. Harris is a regular speaker at gas and electricity conferences, and lectures at the Florence School of Regulation. Mr. Harris has a MSc. Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master of Engineering from Imperial College London.
Affiliations and expertise
Principal, The Brattle Group, RomeLK
Lawrence Kolbe
Dr. Kolbe's work focuses on applied financial economics. His projects address risk, return, and regulatory policy for rate-regulated industries; income tax disputes; natural resource tax and royalty disputes; and firm, security, or project valuation questions in a wide variety of settings. Clients for this work have included federal, state/provincial, and local government agencies; national research institutes; industry organizations; and private firms in various industries. Before co-founding The Brattle Group, where he served as President and then Chairman for a number of years, he was a Director of Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett. Before that, he was a Vice President of Charles River Associates. Earlier, he spent 14 years on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Principal Emeritus, The Brattle Group, CambridgeRead Risk and Return for Regulated Industries on ScienceDirect