Ownership and the price of residential electricity: Evidence from the United States, 1935–1940
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- Carl T. Kitchens & Taylor Jaworski, 2016. "Ownership and the Price of Residential Electricity: Evidence from the United States, 1935-1940," NBER Working Papers 22254, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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Electricity; Ownership; Regulation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
- N12 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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