costs in less-competitive or regulated environments. We test this using a transition from cost-of-service regulation to …-owned plants in states that restructured their wholesale electricity markets improved the most. The results suggest modest medium …

following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated …

We examine the impact of electricity sector restructuring on the operating efficiency of coal-fired power plants in … vertically integrated State Electricity Boards into state generating companies. We find that generating units in states that … unbundled before the Electricity Act of 2003 experienced reductions in forced outages of about 25% and improvements in …

daily or monthly usage rises. There is no cost basis for differentiating marginal price of electricity by consumption level … by these increasing-block electricity tariffs. I find that the rate structure does redistribute income to lower …

, deregulation of public transport is taking shape, and the schemes of control for electricity suppliers are candidates for reform …. In this paper, we review the evolution of business regulation in Hong Kong, analyze the salient features of its scheme of … control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between …

Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have … operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests … antitrust and regulation. Antitrust and regulation can also be viewed as complements in which regulation and antitrust assign …

variation at spatial discontinuities in electricity service areas, where households in the same city experience substantially …