Incentive regulation for electricity networks

CESifo DICE Report

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 3-9

  Joskow, Paul L ^a,b  

^a Department of Economics and Management ^*

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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