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Sulfur Dioxide Compliance of a Regulated Utility

Fullerton, Don; McDermott, Shaun P.; Caulkins, Jonathan P. - 2021

Electric utilities can reduce sulfur dioxide emissions through a variety of strategies such as adding scrubbers, switching to low- sulfur coal, or shifting output between generating plants with different emissions. The cost of achieving a given emission target can be minimized using a market for...

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Effects of Regulation on Utility Financing : Theory and Evidence

Taggart, Robert A. - 2008

years of state commission regulation. Examples of an adaptive response pattern on the part of regulators, firms and …

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Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales

Beach, Brian - 2016

Nearly 40% of England's privately built waterworks were municipalised in the late 19th century. We examine how this affected public health by pairing annual mortality data for over 600 registration districts, spanning 1869 to 1910, with detailed waterworks information. Identification is aided by...

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Transaction Cost Regulation

Spiller, Pablo T. - 2011

This paper discusses the fundamental underpinnings and some implications of transaction cost regulation (TCR), a …. TCR sees regulation as the governance structure of these interactions, and thus, as in standard transaction cost economics … possible institutional alternative. In that sense, politics becomes fundamental to understanding regulation as the governance …

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Principal-Agent Incentives, Excess Caution, and Market Inefficiency : Evidence from Utility Regulation

Borenstein, Severin - 2007

Regulators and firms often use incentive schemes to attract skillful agents and to induce them to put forth effort in pursuit of the principals' goals. Incentive schemes that reward skill and effort, however, may also punish agents for adverse outcomes beyond their control. As a result, such...

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Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure : Historical Experience in the Western United States

Hansen, Zeynep Kocabiyik - 2010

Greater historical perspective is needed to enlighten current debate about future human responses to higher temperatures and increased precipitation variation. We analyze the impact of climatic conditions and variability on agricultural production in five semi-arid western states. We assemble...

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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA

Grafton, R. Quentin - 2014

The paper provides an integrated framework to assess water markets in terms of their institutional underpinnings and the three 'pillars' of integrated water resource management: economic efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability. This framework can be used: (1) to benchmark different...

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Water, Health and Wealth

Ashraf, Nava - 2017

Providing clean water requires maintenance, as well as the initial connections that are typically measured. Frequently, the water supply fails in the developing world, especially when users don't pay the marginal cost of water. This paper uses the timing of frequent, unexpected water service...

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Watersheds in Child Mortality : The Role of Effective Water and Sewerage Infrastructure, 1880 to 1920

Alsan, Marcella; Goldin, Claudia - 2015

We explore the first period of sustained decline in child mortality in the U.S. and provide estimates of the independent and combined effects of clean water and effective sewerage systems on under-five mortality. Our case is Massachusetts, 1880 to 1920, when authorities developed a sewerage and...

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Using Field Experiments to Address Environmental Externalities and Resource Scarcity : Major Lessons Learned and New Directions for Future Research

Price, Michael - 2015

This article provides an overview of the use of field experiments in energy and resource economics. I concentrate on two areas of study; field experiments that (i) speak to the use of dynamic pricing plans to manage the use of electricity and water and (ii) explore the adoption of energy saving...

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