J. Gilbert / P. Kahn (eds.)

International Comparisons of Electricity Regulation

Herausgeber: Gilbert, Richard J.; Richard J., Gilbert; Kahn, Edward P.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 United States, the United Kingdom, Scandanavia, 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. In any regulatory system, the government must bargain with investors and consumers to satisfy conflicting interests. The opacity of information about cost constrains this process. Governments also impose multiple political and economic objectives on the electricity industry, which further obscures cost conditions. Privatization and deregulation tend to reverse these effects. Few countries, however, have managed to sustain private ownership in the long run.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 516
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 982g
• ISBN-13: 9780521495905
• ISBN-10: 0521495903
• Artikelnr.: 22475632

Inhaltsangabe

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.