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International Comparisons of Electricity Regulation

International Comparisons of Electricity Regulation

International Comparisons of Electricity Regulation

Editors:
Richard J. Gilbert, University of California, Berkeley
Edward P. Kahn, University of California, Berkeley
Richard J. Gilbert, Edward P. Kahn, David M. Newbery, Richard Green, Pablo T. Spiller, Luis Viana Martorell, Lennart Hjalmarsson, Peter Navarro, Jürgen Müller, Konrad Stahl, J. G. Culy, E. G. Read, B. D. Wright, Leonard Waverman, Adonis Yatchew, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Srboljub Antic
Published:
January 2007
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Format:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780521030779

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    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.

    • Most comprehensive study of electricity regulation worldwide
    • Contributors include internationally known theorists and applied economists, including Laffont, Newbery, Spiller, and Waverman
    • Analyses are country-specific and highly accessible

    Reviews & endorsements

    "...delves insightfully into the electricity industries of some countries that have moved to restructure, such as in Scandinavia, the Southern Cone countries of South America, New Zealand and the U.K.; as well as those that have not, such as Germany, France and Japan. This book, rich with data and history as well as current movements and prospects, provides a wealth of information about the electricity industries of these countries, in many of which U.S. firms are now investing substantial capital." The Electricity Journal

    "Electric power sectors around the world are going through dramatic changes. This book provides an interesting and useful set of papers that examines the organizational, ownership and regulatory structures of the electricity sectors in a diverse set of countries. It explains the problems these sectors have faced, why and how they are changing in response to them. Must reading for anyone interested in understanding the changes taking place around the world in this important infrastructure sector." Paul L. Joskow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

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    Product details

    January 2007
    Paperback
    9780521030779
    516 pages
    228 × 152 × 31 mm
    0.77kg
    40 b/w illus. 1 map 109 tables
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 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.
      Contributors
    • Richard J. Gilbert, Edward P. Kahn, David M. Newbery, Richard Green, Pablo T. Spiller, Luis Viana Martorell, Lennart Hjalmarsson, Peter Navarro, Jürgen Müller, Konrad Stahl, J. G. Culy, E. G. Read, B. D. Wright, Leonard Waverman, Adonis Yatchew, Jean-Jacques Laffont, Srboljub Antic

    • Editors
    • Richard J. Gilbert , University of California, Berkeley
    • Edward P. Kahn , University of California, Berkeley