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The Second-Best Use of Social Cost Estimates

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  • Burtraw, Dallas

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  • Krupnick, Alan

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A significant literature has developed to estimate the damages to third parties from new electricity generation technologies. This paper focuses on how such estimates can be profitably used in the present regulatory environment, and in the potential new environment that may result from restructuring in the electricity industry.

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  • Burtraw, Dallas & Krupnick, Alan, 1996. "The Second-Best Use of Social Cost Estimates," RFF Working Paper Series dp-96-29, Resources for the Future.
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