Power Structure Ownership, Integration, and Competition in the U.S. Electricity Industry /

• Main Author: Kwoka, John E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1996.
• Subjects: Electrical engineering.; Energy industries.; Industrial organization.; Economics.; Industrial Organization.; Energy Economics.; Electrical Engineering.
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Power Structure examines the effects on economic performance of several key features of the U.S. electric power industry. Paramount among these are public versus private ownership, vertical integration versus deintegration, and retail competition versus monopoly distribution. Each of these, as well...

Table of Contents:

• Public versus Private Ownership and Regulation of Electric Utilities
• Economies of Scale, Vertical Integration, and the Role of Competition
• Costs and Their Determinants
• Price and Markup Behavior
• Extensions to Simultaneous Equations and Customer Classes
• The Political Economy of Ownership and Regulation
• Conclusions.