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Productivity and efficiency of US gas transmission companies: A European regulatory perspective

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posted on 2017-09-29, 10:22 authored by Tooraj Jamasb, Michael Pollitt, Thomas TriebsThomas Triebs
On both sides of the Atlantic, the regulation of gas transmission networks has undergone major changes since the early 1990s. Whereas in the US, the long-standing regime of cost-plus regulation was complemented by increasing pipe-to-pipe competition, most European countries moved towards incentive regulation complemented by market integration. We study the productivity development of a panel of US interstate companies using data envelopment analysis and Malmquist productivity indices. Results are presented for changes in productivity, as well as for several convergence tests. The results indicate that taking productivity and convergence as performance indicators, regulation has been rather successful, in particular during a period where overall demand was flat. However, we argue that a benchmarking-based regulation might have brought about stronger convergence. Lessons for European regulators are twofold. First, the US analysis shows that benchmarking of European transmission operators would be possible if data were available. Second, our results suggest that, in the long-run, market integration and competition are alternatives to the current European model. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Economics

Published in

Energy Policy

Volume

36

Issue

9

Pages

3398 - 3412

Citation

JAMASB, T., POLLITT, M. and TRIEBS, T.P., 2008. Productivity and efficiency of US gas transmission companies: A European regulatory perspective. Energy Policy, 36(9), pp. 3398-3412.

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© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2008

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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Energy Policy and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2008.05.001

ISSN

0301-4215

Language

  • en

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