The potential benefits of Hilmer and related reforms: Electricity supply

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-30

  Whiteman, John ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; REFORM PROCESS;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033053571     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.00090     Document Type: Article

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