RETURN REQUIREMENTS FOR REGULATED ENTITIES IN THE GAS INDUSTRY

Martin Ehmer, Lukas D. Schuchardt () and Heinz-Werner Ufer
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Martin Ehmer: Business Analyst, TU Dortmund University, Germany
Lukas D. Schuchardt: Research Assistant TU Dortmund University, Chair of Accounting and Management Control, Dortmund; Germany
Heinz-Werner Ufer: Assistant Lecturer, TU Dortmund University, Germany

REVISTA ADMINISTRATIE SI MANAGEMENT PUBLIC, 2012, vol. 2012, issue 18, 73-88

Abstract: In regulated businesses, utility companies are facing asymmetric risks due to ex-ante regulation. Shareholders have to question whether their business is earning appropriate returns taking into account those asymmetric risks involved. Adequate performance measures need to be designed and installed in order to benchmark the regulated business against alternative investments. In our study we analyse the impact of regulation on the process of steering and more precisely on the definition of return requirements in the case of a Central and Eastern Europe gas industry with permanent ex-ante regulation. For this purpose, we examine the absolute return target by its two inputs, the rate of return and the investment basis. We conduct an Analytic Hierarchy Process in order to assess the options for the investment basis used to calculate an absolute return requirement in a structured way. Our findings show a twofold view on return requirements in terms of the time horizon. In short-term, regulatory parameters should be taken into account. However, in long-term those parameters can only serve as a figure to control whether regulatory conditions fulfil the needs of the shareholders. Our study shall contribute to the static analysis of regulation on return requirements and steering in the gas industry after privatization.

Keywords: AHP; Central and Eastern Europe; Incentive Based Regulation; Unbundling; Steering. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G28 I28 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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