/privatized distributors and suppliers may not be the best model of market deregulation. As a result, Romanian authorities have started to talk …

responsiveness. Thus, restructuring in electricity markets is not now, and is unlikely to be, synonymous with deregulation …

Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel …-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a … under cost-of-service regulation. I then show that the drop in the price of coal is associated with a reallocation of …

Three decade ago, federal policymakers - Republicans and Democrats - embarked on a general strategy of deregulation in … prices and increased quality, reliability, and scope of services. This book shows that we now have only partial deregulation …

In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets …

. Recognising that regulation is itself costly, and that market contracting, ownership and regulation are partly substitutable forms … contracting, ownership and regulation than does state ownership. Regulation of customer-owned distribution (and transmission) is … ownership has evolved as an effective substitute for regulation. Policy implications are drawn …

Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of deregulation and restructuring on public-interest environmental research … conducted by electric utilities in the US for the period 1990-2001. I find that deregulation has had a tremendous negative on …