Cost savings from generation and distribution with an application to Italian electric utilities

Journal of Regulatory Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-308

  Fraquelli, Giovanni ^a   Piacenza, Massimiliano ^b   Vannoni, Davide ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^b Ceris CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composite cost function; Electric utilities; Liberalization; Subadditivity; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 26244432562     PISSN: 0922680X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11149-005-3959-x     Document Type: Article

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