Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • The difficult transition to competitive electricity markets in the U.S. 

      Joskow, Paul L. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)
      This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the causes and consequences of state and federal initiatives to introduce wholesale and retail competition into the U.S. electricity sector between 1995 and the present. ...

    • Why did British electricity prices fall after 1998? 

      Evans, Joanne; Green, Richard C. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)
      In an attempt to reduce high electricity prices in England and Wales the government has reduced concentration among generators and introduced New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA). Econometric analysis on monthly ...

    • Distinguishable patterns of competition, collusion, and parallel action 

      Smith, James L. (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2003)
      Alternative market structures are distinguishable by the degree of parallel action exhibited by producers. We show that the correlation between output levels varies systematically with the degree of interdependence among ...