Regulatory Agencies: Impact on Firm Performance and Social Welfare
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- Estache, Antonio & Rossi, Martin A., 2008. "Regulatory agencies : impact on firm performance and social welfare," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4509, The World Bank.
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Keywords
Regulatory agency; performance; electricity; private ownership.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
- L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2009-03-28 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-REG-2009-03-28 (Regulation)
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