Interactive Glossary

BROWSE:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

P

• Packaging
• Paging service
• Parallel path flow
• Parameter
• Pareto optimal
• Partnership
• Pay per call
• Pay phone
• Payback period
• Peak load or peak demand
• Peak-load Pricing
• Penalties, non-renewal/license
• Penetration pricing
• Perfect competition
• Performance Standards
• Performance-based regulation (PBR)
• Performance-related pay
• Permanent disconnection
• Personal data
• Planned economies
• Planning
• Points of connection (POC)
• Policy instruments
• Policy problems
• Polluter pays principle (PPP)
• PoolCo
• Poor
• Portfolio management
• Positive economics
• Positive externalities
• Potential output
• POTS (plain old telephone service)
• Power pool
• Power, firm
• Power, interruptible
• Power, non-firm
• Pre-subscription
• Predatory pricing
• Prefix
• Present value
• Press
• Pressure groups
• Prestige pricing
• Price band
• Price basket controls
• Price Cap
• Price cap excessive returns
• Price cap financial model
• Price cap formula
• Price cap path
• Price cap regulation
• Price cap, RPI-X regulation
• Price ceiling
• Price competition
• Price controls
• Price deflator
• Price differentiation
• Price discrimination
• Price elasticity of demand
• Price elasticity of supply
• Price floor
• Price index
• Price instability
• Price makers
• Price mechanism
• Price Rebalancing
• Price reviews
• Price signals
• Price stability
• Price structure
• Price taker
• Prices
• Pricing
• Primary carrier
• Primary distribution, primary distribution feeder
• Primary voltage
• Privacy
• Private benefits
• Private costs
• Private Enterprise
• Private goods
• Private interest
• Private sector
• Private sector investment
• Privatization
• Privatized utilities
• Procedural fairness
• Process
• Process innovation
• Producer goods
• Producer price index (PPI)
• Producer surpluses
• Product life cycle
• Production
• Production possibility boundary
• Production possibility frontier (PPF)
• Production targets
• Productive capacity
• Productive efficiency
• Productivity
• Productivity growth
• Productivity measurement
• Profit
• Profit and loss statement
• Profit margin
• Profit maximization
• Profit-sharing regulation
• Profitability ratios
• Profits, windfalls
• Progressive tax
• Promotion campaigns
• Property rights
• Proportionate return
• Protectionism
• Provider of last resort
• Prudency
• Prudential ratios
• Public
• Public benefits
• Public benefits fee (PBF)
• Public compensation
• Public corporations
• Public Enterprise
• Public expenditure
• Public goods
• Public interest
• Public interest goals
• Public interest theory of regulation
• Public limited company
• Public phone
• Public sector
• Public switched telephone network (PSTN)
• Public telecommunications network
• Punitive injunctions
• Pure economic rent