Research Catalog

Title

The Market for energy / edited by Dieter Helm, John Kay, and David Thompson.

Publication

Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Helm, Dieter.
• Kay, J. A. (John Anderson)
• Thompson, David.
• Institute for Fiscal Studies (Great Britain)

Description

xiv, 449 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Energy policy
• Energy consumption
• Energie > Consommation
• Energy policy > Great Britain
• Energy consumption > Great Britain
• Energie > Consommation > Grande-Bretagne
• Industries énergétiques > Grande-Bretagne
• Energy industries > Great Britain
• Politique énergétique > Grande-Bretagne

Note

• Includes papers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies research project on energy.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [428]-437.

Contents

• Introduction : energy policy and the role of the state in the market for energy / Dieter Helm, John Kay, and David Thompson -- Energy policy / Nigel Lawson -- Energy policy issues after privatization / David Newbery -- Energy policy, merit goods, and social security / Andrew Dilnot and Dieter Helm -- The demand for energy / Department of Energy -- Modelling public enterprise performance / Ray Rees -- Performance of the public sector energy utitlities between 1968 and 1978 / Richard Pryke -- The rationale for marginal cost pricing / Martin Slater -- Competition in electricity supply : has the energy act failed? / Elizabeth Hammond, Dieter Helm, and David Thompson -- The potential of incentive regulation / Richard Schmalensee -- Regulatory issues in the electricity supply industry / George Yarrow.
• The role of public services commissions in facilitating the development of combined heat and power generation in the US / Alex Henney and David Thompson -- Risk analysis and optional investment in the electricity supply industry / Ian Jones -- Electricity supply in Europe : lessons for the UK / Dieter Helm and Francis McGowan -- Gas privatization : effects on pricing policy / Catherine Price -- Regulation of the gas industry / Elizabeth Hammond, Dieter Helm, and David Thompson -- Liberalizing the British coal industry / Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall -- The economics of coal / Bill Robinson -- The economic implications of North Sea oil revenues / Peter Forsyth and John Kay -- The macroeconomic impact of North Sea oil / Christopher Allsopp and John Rhys -- The British experience of taxing oil extraction / Michael Devereux.

ISBN

0198286082 :

LCCN

88031252

OCLC

ocm18588175

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries