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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | ECONOMIC IMPACT OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY DEREGULATION ON THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:  A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS
Autores: | Coupal,   Roger H.; Holland,   David W.
Data: | 2004-01-06
Ano: | 2002
Palavras-chave: | Agricultural and Food Policy.
Resumo: | Electric power markets are being deregulated nationwide with different impacts depending upon current policies and historical circumstances from region to region.  The Pacific Northwest, with its historic abundance of low-cost hydropower and dependence on public power, with experience deregulation and conditioned by this legacy.  This analysis focuses on the economic impacts of deregulation on the State of Washington.  A 31-sector computable general equilibrium model is used to evaluate the impacts of Washington's economy.  In a most likely scenario, electricity exports expand to high-priced regions.  The impact on the state economy is a reduction in gross state product as a result of high electricity prices.  Returns to capital increase, but returns to private capital and to labor decrease because much of the financial gain accrues to public power.
Tipo: | Journal Article
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

12212

http://purl.umn.edu/31085

Editor: | AgEcon Search
Relação: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics&gt;Volume 27, Number 01, July 2002

Formato:

17

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