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Electricity restructuring: deregulation or reregulation?

Article Abstract:

The restructuring of the electricity industry in the US following deregulation is examined. Consumers may have to bear increased costs in the short term in order to receive the benefit of restructuring in the long term.

Author: Borenstein, Severin, Bushnell, James
Publisher: Cato Institute
Publication Name: Regulation
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0147-0590
Year: 2000
Electric utilities

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Competition requires transmission capacity: the case of the U.S. Northeast

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Research into the effect on costs of the deregulation of electric power generation in the northeast of the US is presented, with focus on the need for more investment in the transmission grid to reduce prices further.

Author: Hale, Douglas R., Overbye, Thomas J., Leckey, Thomas
Publisher: Cato Institute
Publication Name: Regulation
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0147-0590
Year: 2000
Surveys

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Making sense of drug prices

Article Abstract:

Cross-national and domestic drug price differences are not as great as has been claimed. The prices charged to cash-paying retail customers are not boosted by discounts to large purchasers.

Author: Danzon, Patricia M.
Publisher: Cato Institute
Publication Name: Regulation
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0147-0590
Year: 2000
Pharmaceutical industry

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Subjects list: United States, Finance, Prices and rates, Cover Story, Deregulation, Electricity, Electric power transmission
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