An agency perspective on the accounting costs used in various roles in the regulation of a state-owned natural monopoly: The British Gas Corporation 1972-86
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Accounting Costs; Long Run Marginal Costs; Financial Statements; State-OWNED; Natural Monopoly; Gas Consumers; Taxpayers;All these keywords.
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