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New horizons in natural gas deregulation

Title: New horizons in natural gas deregulation / edited by Jerry Ellig and Joseph P. Kalt ; foreword by Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Publication: Westport, CT : Praeger, 1996.

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Description

xxvi, 260 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This volume brings together fourteen papers by leading economists, regulators, and industry practitioners presented at a historic conference on natural gas deregulation. From the origins of gas regulation in the last century to a reexamination of the policy reforms of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) over the last decade, these essays constitute a primer on today's major gas policy issues.
These topics include the case for incentive regulation, the costs and benefits of mandatory open-access transportation, the methodology used for determining "workably competitive" markets, lessons from light-handed intrastate regulation, new transactions in the gas market, and private contracting to bypass regulation. Many of these issues and insights can be applied to restructuring other industries such as electric power and telecommunications.
. Academics and industry practitioners alike will find this book an indispensable reference guide to the history of gas regulation, the recent industry restructuring, and the options for future regulatory reform toward greater market reliance.

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Contents

Foreword / Robert L. Bradley, Jr. -- Introduction: The New World of Gas Regulation / Jerry Ellig and Joseph P. Kalt -- The Distortions and Dynamics of Gas Regulation / Robert L. Bradley, Jr. -- Deregulation or Regulatory Change? / Michael A. Crew -- The Uneasy Case for Mandatory Contract Carriage in the Natural Gas Industry / David J. Teece -- In Defense of Open Access / Ronald N. Lafferty and Richard P. O'Neill -- The Scope of Deregulation for Natural Gas Pipelines and the "Workable Competition" Standard / Dan Alger -- Market Structure, Measurements, and Deregulation / Wayne T. Brough -- Incentive Regulation for Natural Gas Pipelines: A Positive Step in Rate Design / Adam B. Jaffe and Joseph P. Kalt -- The Future of Incentive Rate Making / Kenneth W. Costello -- Intrastate Pipeline Regulation: Lessons from the Texas Experience / Jerry Ellig -- Texas Pipelines and Federal Regulation / J. Rodney Lemon --
The Expanding Domain of the Nonjurisdictional Gas Industry / Catherine Good Abbott -- Reducing Risk, Shifting Risk, and Concealing Risk: Why Are There Long-Term Gas Contracts? / Robert J. Michaels -- A Brave New World: Private Contracting as a Regulatory Alternative / Arthur De Vany -- Regulatory Reform, the Regulatory Compact, Contracting, and All That / Richard A. Bilas.

ISBN

0275951685 (alk. paper)

LCCN

95011263

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Columbia University Libraries