Study On The Price Regulation Of Network Utilities

Along with perfecting market economic system and the reform of network utilities, price regulation of government to network utilities has become a hot topic. Especially in the recent years, the rises in the price of railway department in Spring Festival, piped water of cities, electric power industry and gas industry of cities have come into the range of people's eyesight. As the core of government regulation, price regulation determines the efficiency and equity of products supply. However, the fast-developing society asks for more suitable methods of price regulation. Because of the various problems in the existing price regulation system, reform is becoming a trend.The logic of thinking of this paper: Chapter 2 analyses the economic characteristics of network utilities, and combines the present situation. Then it gives 4 policy targets of price regulation of network utilities. The price level regulation methods of Chapter 3 undertake the realization of the former two targets; the price structure regulation methods of Chapter 4 undertake that of the latter two. Because price subsidization is not the reform trend, enterprises should consider its survival and development. So under price level regulation, price structure regulation studies economic efficiency and equity of a society. According to the price regulation system constructed by Chapter 2, 3 and 4, Chapter 5 focuses on the existing problems in the system of our country, and then offers the theoretical reform plan and countermeasures.The innovations of this dissertation:1. Analysing the economic characteristics of network utilities and combines with the present situation, then giving four policy targets of price regulation of network utilities.2. Combining price level regulation and price structure regulation with economic characteristics and the present situation, constructing a theoretical system of price regulation for network utilities;3. Based on the history and the present situation of network utilities of our country, putting forward a theoretical reform plan and giving countermeasures.