Conflicting aims in electricity privatization

Using Experiments to Inform the Privatization/deregulation Movement in Electricity

At the University of Arizona, electronic trading (now commonly known as e-commerce) in the experimental laboratory began in 1976 when Arlington Williams conducted the initial experiments testing the first electronic “double-auction” trading system, which he had programmed on the Plato operating system. The term “double auction” refers to the oral bid-ask sequential trading system used since the...

The effect of power distribution privatization on electricity prices in Turkey: Has liberalization served the purpose?

Various electricity reforms have been adopted by a number of countries within the last 2 decades. Turkey, as one of those countries, has restructured its electricity market and intensively privatized the distribution companies. As one of the main targets of the liberalization efforts in the sector was announced to be reduced consumer prices, it is a matter of interest to look at the related dev...

The Privatization of Brazil's Electricity Industry: Sector Reform or Restatement of the Government's Balance Sheet?

The Brazilian Power Sector, Latin America's largest, unique among energy suppliers to the world's leading economies, is almost completely dependent on one resource for its energy supply: water. Of its 65, 134 MW of installed generating capacity, in 1998 more than 90% was hydro. A substantial amount of that hydro capacity is located on only a few rivers. The sites for the generating facilities, ...

Performance measurements and impacts of privatization Performance measurement in emerging markets: Control privatization versus revenue privatization

Privatization in Higher Education.PDF

Despite the remarkable rate of change that marks our world today, six forces are undeniably spurring the spread of privatization in higher education: the rise of an information-based economy, changes in demographics, an increase in public scrutiny, the advent of new technologies, the convergence of knowledge-based organizations, and a decline in public trust in government. Governors can help st...