This case is designed to be used either with the British water industry (A): The evolution of price-Cap Regulation (1809.0) or separately, describes the controversy in the British water industry in 2002, 13 years after its privatization. (A) case focuses on the experience in the industry with price-cap regulation, the control system of monopoly, the British applied to all public services are privatized in the 1980s and 1990s. Case is designed to support the discussion of difficulties, regulation of monopolies and the advantages and disadvantages of price-cap approach. (B) case focuses on the debate over for-profit company transformation major water in the water and non-profit company designed to support the discussion of the merits of commercial and non-profit firms and the optimal capital structure for-profit company. These two cases are related to each other in the fact that some observers blame for the difficulties in the management utility to create interest in the non-profit utilities. HKS Case Number 1810.0 "Hide
by Jose Gomez-Ibanez 19 pages. Publication Date: September 29, 2005. Prod. #: HKS234-PDF-ENG
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