Utility Depreciation: An Inequity
研究了美国公用事业在资本回收方面严重落后于整体工业的问题,分析了通货膨胀、技术变革、竞争和监管压力对折旧的影响,并建议调整监管折旧政策以适应高通胀和快速技术变革的环境。
America9s public utilities face an unprecedented crisis. Public utilities are falling drastically behind American industry as a whole in capital recovery. The author focuses on the inflationary, technological, competitive, and regulatory pressures which confront these companies in the area of depreciation, and proposes that regulatory depreciation policy be adapted to today9s environment of high inflation, competition, and rapid technological change.