1984/10/01 by William F. Watson, Paul L. Joskow, Richard Schmalensee · 1 citation
Engineering · Business, Management and Accounting · #Electric Power System Optimization #Transport and Economic Policies #Power System Reliability and Maintenance #Deregulation #Power (physics) #Economics #Market power #Business #Power market #Industrial organization #Market economy #Electric power system #Physics
paper · doi:10.2307/1057863
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Markets for Power provides an unusually complete analysis of the economic, technical, and institutional aspects of the electric utility industry. The authors evaluate four currently popular options for deregulating this unique segment of the economy, and in a balanced program for reform, they advise against total deregulation and recommend a cautious approach to even partial deregulation.