Competition in retail electricity supply

Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1-23

  Littlechild, Stephen C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Austrian economics; Competition; Electricity; Regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976603473     PISSN: 11456396     EISSN: 21531552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1145-6396.1067     Document Type: Article

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