an efficient wholesale market. These features of the electricity supply industry also make antitrust or competition law …"This paper first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring …, although the technology of electricity production and delivery make a reliable transmission network a necessary condition for …

an efficient wholesale market. These features of the electricity supply industry also make antitrust or competition law …"The author first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring …, although the technology of electricity production and delivery make a reliable transmission network a necessary condition for …

likely to be more successful in the electricity sector than in the water sector because the correlation between consumption … and income is much stronger in the case of electricity than water. Moreover, IBT structures in electricity tend to be much …

In the second half of the 1980s, several electricity companies in developed countries incorporated the automation of …, in particular in electricity distribution companies, are described and analyzed in this report. …

decisions. The authors use a novel firm-level database of Chinese SMEs with unique information on market power in both output …

(SPSPs) of water supply and electricity conducted over a six-month period in 2003. It draws on more than 400 documents … into this category. SPSP provision of networked services appears to be significantly higher for electricity than for water … delivering water supply or electricity. SPSPs take a variety of organizational forms, both for-profit and non-profit. As such …

"Since the early 1990s, substantial resources and efforts have been spent on implementing market-oriented electricity … reforms in developing countries. While there are important sectoral, economic, and social dimensions involved in electricity … toward filling this gap and developing a coherent framework for studying electricity reform in developing countries that …

for the electricity industry, particularly for developing countries. They discuss governance criteria and their … effectiveness for regulatory agencies in the electricity and telecommunications industries and compare these with the results from … implications and of priorities for information collection to improve understanding of these issues. "--World Bank web site …

higher quality regulatory governance are significantly associated with superior electricity outcomes. Their analysis draws on …