商品簡介
Kleit (energy and environmental economics, Pennsylvania State U.) presents nine essays exploring various aspects of restructuring electricity markets in response to deregulation and liberalization. Authors analyze the roots of the 2000-2001 California electricity crisis, advocate for retail pricing reform, describe the experience of restructuring in the Canadian state of Alberta, examine the contributions of experimental economics to the debate about electricity markets, discuss the physical constraints to complete decentralization of power markets, explore methods to measure market power in electricity, and review the work of the US-Canada Power System Outage Task Force on the northeast American blackout of August of 2003. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Andrew N. Kleit is professor of energy and environmental economics at the Pennsylvania State University. He has been an economist for the Federal Trade Commission and the Council of Economic Advisers. Dr. Kleit is the coeditor of Competition Policy Enforcement: The Economics of the Antitrust Process (1996).
