The a to Z of Public Utility Regulation
Author : Wayne P. Olson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Public utilities
ISBN : 9780910325325
Author : Wayne P. Olson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Public utilities
ISBN : 9780910325325
Author : Kenneth Nowotny
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401076326
David B. Smith This is a book about the application of economic theory to a unique form of social control - public utility regulation. A central theme of this work is to examine the role that economics has played in shaping the rationale and direction of regulatory practices. While economic theory has played an important role in the shaping of regulatory policy in the past, it has an even greater potential role to play in the future as the regulatory community grapples with the many challenges of a changing economic environment. This is a very timely and much needed piece of work that can serve as a reference for decision makers who are facing the challeng ing problems of deregulation and competition. This work is comprised of 13 selected articles that guide the reader from an initial discussion of why we decided to regulate certain industries in the first place to a specific analysis of what role economic theory has played in the electric, natural gas, telecommunications, and water indus tries, and whether it should be allowed to play an even more dominant role in the future. The reader is then provided with a more modern version of what economists mean by the concept of natural monopoly and a menu of policy options that will allow society to derive any benefits from such a market structure.
Author : Texas
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Public utilities
ISBN :
Author : Charles Franklin Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : Michael A. Crew
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1986-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1349072958
Author : Leonard S. Hyman
Publisher :
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Author : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 34,56 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Oregon
ISBN :
Author : Kenneth Nowotny
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9400925085
David B. Smith This is a book about the application of economic theory to a unique form of social control - public utility regulation. A central theme of this work is to examine the role that economics has played in shaping the rationale and direction of regulatory practices. While economic theory has played an important role in the shaping of regulatory policy in the past, it has an even greater potential role to play in the future as the regulatory community grapples with the many challenges of a changing economic environment. This is a very timely and much needed piece of work that can serve as a reference for decision makers who are facing the challeng ing problems of deregulation and competition. This work is comprised of 13 selected articles that guide the reader from an initial discussion of why we decided to regulate certain industries in the first place to a specific analysis of what role economic theory has played in the electric, natural gas, telecommunications, and water indus tries, and whether it should be allowed to play an even more dominant role in the future. The reader is then provided with a more modern version of what economists mean by the concept of natural monopoly and a menu of policy options that will allow society to derive any benefits from such a market structure.
Author : John L. Neufeld
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022639963X
The economics of electric utilities -- Early commercialization -- The first electric utilities -- The adoption of state commission rate regulation -- Growth and growing pains -- Public utility holding companies: opportunity and crisis -- Public utility holding companies: indictment and "death sentence"--Hydroelectricity and the federal government -- Rural electrification -- Conclusion and a look forward from 1940
Author : Paul L. Joskow
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 1988-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262600187
This timely study evaluates four generic proposals for allowing free market forces toreplace government regulation in the electric power industry and concludes that none of thederegulation alternatives considered represents a panacea for the performance failures associatedwith things as they are now. It proposes a balanced program of regulatory reform and deregulationthat promises to improve industry performance in the short run, resolve uncertainties about thecosts and benefits of deregulation, and positions the industry for more extensive deregulation inthe long run should interim experimentation with deregulation, structural, and regulatory reformsmake it desirable.The book integrates modern microeconomic theory with a comprehensive analysis ofthe economic, technical, and institutional characteristics of modern electrical power systems. Itemphasizes that casual analogies to successful deregulation efforts in other sectors of the economyare an inadequate and potentially misleading basis for public policy in the electric power industry,which has economic and technical characteristics that are quite different from those in otherderegulated industries.Paul L. Joskow is Professor of Economics at MIT, author of ControllingHospital Costs (MIT Press 1981) and coauthor with Martin L. Baughman and Dilip P. Kamat of ElectricPower in the United States (MIT Press 1979). Richard Schmalensee, also at MIT, is Professor ofApplied Economics, author of The Economics of Advertising and The Control of Natural Monopolies, andeditor of The MIT Press Series, Regulation of Economic Activity.