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dramatically affect estimated market outcomes. Had regulators impeded vertical arrangements (as in California), our simulations …
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California and February 2021 in Texas demonstrate, supply shortfalls can have large economic and public health consequences. An …
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-hour rises as a household consumes more electricity per month. More recently, in California, opponents of a proposal to lower …
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can provide for the design of competitive power markets in the US, particularly California, and other countries …
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Electricity restructuring has created the opportunity for producers to exercise market power. Oligopolists increase price by distorting output decisions, causing cross-firm production inefficiencies. This study estimates the environmental implications of production inefficiencies attributed to...
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Restructuring electricity markets has enabled wholesalers to exercise market power. Using a common method of measuring competitive behavior in these markets, several studies have found substantial inefficiencies. This method overstates actual welfare loss by ignoring production constraints that...
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While neoclassical models assume static cost-minimization by firms, agency models suggest that firms may not minimize costs in less-competitive or regulated environments. We test this using a transition from cost-of-service regulation to market-oriented environments for many U.S. electric...
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This paper discusses the political, regulatory and economic factors that led to California's electricity crisis in 2000 … and 2001. It begins with a discussion of the origins of California's electricity restructuring and competition programs … of lessons about electricity market liberalization gained from the recent experience in California …
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area of dominance. This" analysis is applied to a model of California's forthcoming deregulated electricity market. Our …
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Prior to the 1990s, most electricity customers in the U.S. were served by regulated, vertically-integrated, monopoly utilities that handled electricity generation, transmission, local distribution and billing/collections. Regulators set retail electricity prices to allow the utility to recover...
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