Title: The Market for energy /
Authors: Helm, Dieter.; Kay, J. A.; Thompson, David.; Institute for Fiscal Studies (Great Britain)
Date: 1989
Publisher: Clarendon Press ;
Physical description: xiv, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: H
Contents: Introduction : energy policy and the role of the state in the market for energy / Dieter Helm, John Kay, and David Thompson -- Energy policy / Nigel Lawson -- Energy policy issues after privatization / David Newbery -- Energy policy, merit goods, and social security / Andrew Dilnot and Dieter Helm -- The demand for energy / Department of Energy -- Modelling public enterprise performance / Ray Rees -- Performance of the public sector energy utitlities between 1968 and 1978 / Richard Pryke -- The rationale for marginal cost pricing / Martin Slater -- Competition in electricity supply : has the energy act failed? / Elizabeth Hammond, Dieter Helm, and David Thompson -- The potential of incentive regulation / Richard Schmalensee -- Regulatory issues in the electricity supply industry / George Yarrow. The role of public services commissions in facilitating the development of combined heat and power generation in the US / Alex Henney and David Thompson -- Risk analysis and optional investment in the electricity supply industry / Ian Jones -- Electricity supply in Europe : lessons for the UK / Dieter Helm and Francis McGowan -- Gas privatization : effects on pricing policy / Catherine Price -- Regulation of the gas industry / Elizabeth Hammond, Dieter Helm, and David Thompson -- Liberalizing the British coal industry / Colin Robinson and Eileen Marshall -- The economics of coal / Bill Robinson -- The economic implications of North Sea oil revenues / Peter Forsyth and John Kay -- The macroeconomic impact of North Sea oil / Christopher Allsopp and John Rhys -- The British experience of taxing oil extraction / Michael Devereux.
Notes: Includes papers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies research project on energy. Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Energy consumption--Great Britain.; Energy consumption.; Energy industries--Great Britain.; Energy industries.; Energy policy--Great Britain.; Energy policy.