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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111348
	Reforming the electric power industry in developing economies evidence on efficiency and electricity access outcomes
	Dertinger A.; Hirth L.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0301-4215
卷号	139
英文摘要	Since the 1990s, many developing countries have restructured their electric power industry. Policies such as breaking up, commercializing and privatizing utilities, allowing for independent power producers, installing independent regulators, and introducing competitive wholesale markets were meant to improve the industry's efficiency and service quality. We exploit more than 30 years of data from over 100 countries to investigate the impact of power sector reforms on efficiency (represented by network losses) and access to electricity (represented by connection rates and residential power consumption). Crucially, reforms are likely to be endogenous with respect to sector performance: a crisis in electricity supply might well trigger reform efforts. We deal with endogeneity using reform activity in neighboring countries as an instrument. Our results suggest that reforms strongly and positively impact electricity access. According to our preferred specification, a full reform program would increase connection rates by 20 percentage points and per capita consumption by 62 percent: these are large effects that are stable across a range of robustness checks. Moreover, the effect of improving access is largest in South Asian countries. In contrast to previous studies, we do not find robust evidence to support the theory that reforms reduce network losses. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Electricity access; Instrumental variable; Power sector reform
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/124779
作者单位	Hertie School, Germany; Neon Neue Energieökonomik GmbH, Germany; Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dertinger A.,Hirth L.. Reforming the electric power industry in developing economies evidence on efficiency and electricity access outcomes[J],2020,139.
APA	Dertinger A.,&Hirth L..(2020).Reforming the electric power industry in developing economies evidence on efficiency and electricity access outcomes.Energy policy,139.
MLA	Dertinger A.,et al."Reforming the electric power industry in developing economies evidence on efficiency and electricity access outcomes".Energy policy 139(2020).