International Comparisons of Electricity Regulation

ISBN-13: 9780521495905 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 516 str.

Richard J. Gilbert; Edward P. Kahn

Opis

This book offers the most comprehensive characterization assembled to date of the historical, institutional, and economic forces affecting electricity regulation. Eminent economists organized by the University of California Energy Institute survey the US, UK, Scandinavia, Latin America, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, and Yugoslavia. Recent experiments with privatization, competition, and restructuring in electricity are contrasted with instances where government ownership and traditional vertical integration still dominate. The introductory essay by Richard J. Gilbert, Edward P. Kahn, and David Newbery synthesizes individual country studies.

Recenzje

"Rnternational Comparisons is a useful resource for the researcher or teacher with an interest in public utilities." Stephen H. Karlson, Journal of Comparative Economics

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Introduction: international comparisons of electricity regulation Richard J. Gilbert, Edward P. Kahn and David M. Newbery; 2. Regulation, public ownership and privatisation of the English electricity industry David M. Newbery and Richard Green; 3. How should it be done? Electricity regulation in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile Pablo T. Spiller and Luis Viana Martorell; 4. From club-regulation to market competition in the Scandinavian electricity supply industry Lennart Hjalmarsson; 5. Competition and institutional change in the US electric power regulation Richard J. Gilbert and Edward P. Kahn; 6. The Japanese electric utility industry Peter Navarro; 7. Regulation of the market for electricity in the Federal Republic of Germany Jürgen Müller and Konrad Stahl; 8. The evolution of New Zealand's electricity supply structure J. G. Culy, E. G. Read and B. D. Wright; 9. Regulation of electric power in Canada Leonard Waverman and Adonis Yatchew; 10. The French electricity industry Jean-Jacques Laffont; 11. The Yugoslav electric power industry Srboljub Antic; Index.