In December 1990, the twelve regional electricity companies responsible for the distribution and supply of electricity … in England and Wales were privatised. For the first few years following privatisation, real prices, profits and costs in … privatisation by examining actual and predicted falls in costs over the period to 2005. The authors conclude that the privatisation …

undertaken by an Independent Power Producer (IPP). During the past decade privately owned IPPs selling electricity to the power …

available, the type of ownership of the facility, and electricity tariff policies are not independent variables. This paper … implication for domestic electricity pricing policy. In this case, the Bui dam is both financially and economically better than …

of electricity would provide the quantity of energy demanded at an acceptable level of reliability. The question … addressed in most of the investment appraisals has been: “is this investment the least cost way to supply the electricity … an existing electricity transmission system. First, the analysis is done in an integrated fashion where the financial …

This paper attempts to assess the social welfare impact of the restructuring and privatisation of the electricity … privatisation was worthwhile and that the social welfare of being connected has an important contribution on it. Government and …

Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is … probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly … regulations across states would boost competition and productivity. …

Australia’s productivity growth has decelerated markedly around the turn of the century. Part of the decline is … probably temporary, but raising multifactor productivity is key to ensure that living standards continue to grow strongly … regulations across states would boost competition and productivity.<P>Un nouvel élan pour la productivité en Australie …

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic …, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We focus on electricity and gas sectors because energy sectors have usually … privatisation and other reforms on consumer prices using both subjective data on consumers' perception of utility prices and data on …

The research question addressed by this paper is a simple one: are European consumers happy with the electricity supply … services after two decades of reforms? We focus on self-assessed consumers’ satisfaction with electricity prices as reported in …’ satisfaction and the complete reform package made of privatisation, vertical disintegration and liberalisation. These results …

, electricity, water supply, railways and air transport. For the above sectors we construct long time-series of different measures … source allows us to compare privatisation experiences quite different between each other. Mainstream privatisation theories … privatisations should reduce wages for employees. We find instead that privatisation has permanent negative effects on real wages …