The "regulatory compact" and implicit contracts: should stranded costs be recoverable?

Energy Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 69-83

  Boyd, James ^a  

^a RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

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EID: 0031702222     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol19-No3-4     Document Type: Article

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