A test for natural monopoly with application to Norwegian electricity distribution

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 669-685

  Salvanes, Kjell G ^a   Tjøtta, Sigve ^b  

^a Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consistency region; Electricity distribution; Natural monopoly; Test for subadditivity

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ENERGY MARKET; MONOPOLY;

NORWAY;

EID: 0032442466     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007708912329     Document Type: Article

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