This paper describes the current state of the Macedonian electricity sector. It looks at ongoing structural changes …, driven by the gradual adoption of the EU acquis on energy, and comes up with estimates for electricity subsidies. It …

as consisting of the three subsectors of crude oil and natural gas production, refinery, and electricity production. It … electricity sector, and inefficient government subsidies in the latter two subsectors. …

energy prices, we find electricity prices––relative to oil and gas––to be more important in the manufacturing process …, with a one standard deviation reduction in electricity prices leading to a 2.8 percent increase in manufacturing output …. Our estimated elasticities together with plausible reductions in electricity tariffs derived from the energy reform, could …

public versus private provision. The results in this paper suggest that management of electricity firms by the private sector … leads to a significant improvement in the quality of the provision of electricity. These improvements in quality and supply … of electricity provision yield some efficiency gains in terms of the time allocation of the working labor force that can …

taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …. The paper also assesses how lessons learned in the reform of electricity were internalized in the design of the regulatory …