Abstract In 2002, the California Public Utilities Commission alleged that a group of energy sellers had overcharged California ratepayers by approximately $14 billion. The case went to trial and was dismissed, appealed, and ultimately remanded to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. It...

This paper addresses the relationship between the design of incentives to firms under regulation, mainly the rule for adjusting tariffs, and trade balance performance of the country. We also explore whether this relationship is relevant or not for a typical developing economy like Argentina. We...

In this paper we advocate using the latent class model (LCM) approach to control for technological differences in traditional efficiency analysis of regulated electricity networks. Our proposal relies on the fact that latent class models are designed to cluster firms by uncovering differences in...

Seit 1993 wird in Deutschland Biodiesel für die Vermarktung hergestellt. Der dazu verwendete Rohstoff ist Rapsöl. Ähnlich wie andere nachwachsende Rohstoffe profitierten die Initiativen zum Anbau von Raps für die Biodieselherstellung und zum Aufbau dieses Wirtschaftszweiges von einer...