Research On Reformation Of Water Price Regulation In Taiwan

Although research on reformation of natural monopoly is hot for present academe in Taiwan, most scholars only concentrate on telecom, electric power and some others. Few of them pay attention to water supply which may be considered as blank in research on reformation of natural monopoly in Taiwan.Since early, privatization has been regarded as the reform direction of water supply in Taiwan. And reformation of water regulation is the pivotal link. But the reform scheme of water supply in Taiwan is not clear until now. The pace of privatization has been delayed again and again because of kinds of authorities'considerations in Taiwan.The negative factors such as the increase of conflicts between water supply and demand, weak regulation effectiveness, the decrease of service quality have made the significance and urgency of water supply reformation more and more obvious. Researching reformation of water supply regulation in Taiwan from the point of price regulation, this paper proposes price regulation system good for the development of water supply in Taiwan, based on the reform experience of developed market economy countries.This paper tries to research reformation of water supply regulation from the point of price regulation, and proposes the reform system of water price regulation by referring to the reform experience of developed countries and districts.This paper is consisted of following chapters:Chapter 1 is exordium, in which the author explains research origin, answers the question"why price management should be taken as the breach of water supply management reformation in Taiwan", reviews the literatures about price management reformation of Taiwan and foreign countries, and introduces research significance and method at last.Chapter 2 introduces economics theory base of this paper. By researching regulation theory and price regulation theory, this chapter provides theory support for reformation of water price regulation in Taiwan.Chapter 3 briefly introduces present condition of water price regulation in Taiwan. This paper deeply analyzes the problems with price regulation and points out the reform direction in the future.Chapter 4 based on the introduction of several common price regulation models in developed countries and districts, according to special condition of water supply in Taiwan, the fourth chapter proposes optional models for reformation of price horizontal regulation.Chapter 5 based on typical models of water price structural regulation, the fifth chapter studies the feasibility to apply the models to reformation of water price regulation in Taiwan, and referring to the models puts forward the concrete contents about reformation of water price structural regulation.At last, the epilogue summarizes the whole paper.