Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel … procurement practices by coal- and natural gas-fired electricity generating plants in the United States following state …-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a …

competition effects of changing the rules of the game for existing and new electricity self generators. Our analysis discusses the …

price schedule of PRB coal is consistent with a theoretical model of the effects of emissions regulation on demand for low …

-out decision by the German government has significantly affected electricity prices and thus competitiveness in neighbouring …

-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that adopt electricity market liberalization laws are subsequently fifteen to forty …

Prior research proposes that a monopolist with private information inflates their reported costs under rate regulation …

In 2004, in the beginning of the first president Lula mandate, a complete regulatory reform of electricity was launched … electricity tariffs. The results of the investigation pointed out numerous reasons, but failed to identify generation costs as one … of the main causes. In this paper the analysis done by Congress is broadened addressing the trend in electricity …