The Economic Costs of Unsupplied Electricity: Evidence from Backup Generation among African Firms
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- Musiliu 0. Oseni & Michael G. Pollitt, 2013. "The Economic Costs of Unsupplied Electricty: Evidence from Backup Generation among African Firms," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 1351, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
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Africa; Backup; Electricity; Firms; Outage costs; Two-Limit Tobit;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- L6 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing
- L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
- L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
- N77 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Africa; Oceania
- Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy
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