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EFFECTS OF REGULATION ON PUBLIC UTILITIES

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Date Issued:
1976
Summary:
This thesis focuses on the "ideal effects'' of regulation on public utilities. The effects are deduced by comparing and interpreting conditions for maximization of various models, with and without regulatory constraints. Three objective functions are considered: welfare maximization, profit maximization and sales maximization. Uniform load models are the first to be considered and the effects of a rate-of-return constraint are analyzed. Next peak load models are introduced with the traditional welfare objective. Finally, the effects of the imposition of a rate-of-return constraint on various peak load models are analyzed.
Title: THE EFFECTS OF REGULATION ON PUBLIC UTILITIES.
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Name(s): Wiggenhorn, Joan
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Scheidell, John M., Thesis advisor
College of Business
Department of Economics
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 108 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis focuses on the "ideal effects'' of regulation on public utilities. The effects are deduced by comparing and interpreting conditions for maximization of various models, with and without regulatory constraints. Three objective functions are considered: welfare maximization, profit maximization and sales maximization. Uniform load models are the first to be considered and the effects of a rate-of-return constraint are analyzed. Next peak load models are introduced with the traditional welfare objective. Finally, the effects of the imposition of a rate-of-return constraint on various peak load models are analyzed.
Identifier: 13798 (digitool), FADT13798 (IID), fau:10627 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Business
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
Subject(s): Public utilities
Public utilities--Rate of return
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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