Ghana has been plagued with Power Crisis for the past three years. In the mix of discussions on the energy challenges that Ghana has been confronted with over the years is the level of efficiency of its sole electricity distribution organisation; the Electricity Company of Ghana Limited (ECG)....

Using firm-level balance-sheet data comparable across EU countries, we consider firms active in generation, distribution and transmission of electricity and their ownership structure to empirically investigate the interaction of public versus private ownership and the quality of institutions as...

This paper seeks to assess the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on performance in the generation segment of the electricity supply industry. Regulatory indicators for a panel of 19 OECD countries over a 10 year time period were constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform...

TVA and the other federal electric utilities were created under Democratic administrations, and their service territories were initially bluer than average. These subsidized enterprises sell cheap power preferentially to non-investor-owned distributors, so such distributors are more prominent...

This paper seeks to assess the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on performance in the generation segment of the electricity supply industry. Regulatory indicators for a panel of 19 OECD countries over a 10 year time period were constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform...

In this paper, we examine the effects of interest group pressure and the structure of political institutions on infrastructure deployment by state-owned electric utilities in a panel of 78 countries during the period 1970-1994. We consider two factors that jointly influence the rate of...

This paper aims to explore the choice of regulatory regime and form for electricity distribution characterised by natural monopoloy in Thailand. Taking the specificities of developing countries, the level of development concerning regulation and characteristics of the industry into...

This paper aims to estimate the efficiency improvement target or the X factor for regulating the Thai electricity generation state owned enterprise. Efficiency is measured by employing a modern, standard application of parametric and nonparametric approaches, namely Stochastic Frontier Analysis...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a fiscal assessment of privatisation of state owned enterprises in the electricity supply industry in Thailand in order to evaluate the justification of the fiscal benefit of privatisation. The analysis is separated into electricity generation enterprise...

The present paper deals with a critically Italian question with regard to the actual debate about public utility sector. The paper tries to point out positive effects that a suitable accountability system can produce in the management of local public utilities in order to bridge the gap between...