Designing Incentive Regulation in the Electricity Sector
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Incentive Regulation; Electricity;JEL classification:
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
- Q40 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - General
- Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2023-12-11 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-DES-2023-12-11 (Economic Design)
- NEP-ENE-2023-12-11 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-RES-2023-12-11 (Resource Economics)
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