Bridger M. Mitchell

Do Time-of-use Rates Change Load Curves?

Utilities and regulators need to know what, if any, effect time-of-use (TOU) rates will have on electricity loads. The question raises serious methodo...

Telecommunications Pricing

Theory and Practice

Systematically reviews recent innovations in the economic theory of pricing and extends results to the conditions which characterize telecommunication...

Peak-load Pricing

European Lessons for U.S. Energy Policy

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Peak-load Pricing of Electricity

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Projected Nationwide Energy and Capacity Savings from Peak-load Pricing of Electricity in the Industrial Sector

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Estimating the Autocorrelated Error Model with Trended Data, Further Results

A Monte Carlo study is made of the small sample properties of various estimators of the linear regression model with first-order autocorrelated errors...

Maximum Likelihood Vs. Minimum Sum-of-squares Estimation of the Autocorrelated Error Model

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Evaluating Time-of-day Electricity Rates for Residential Customers

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Incremental Costs of Telephone Access and Local Use

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Lessons to be Learned from the Los Angeles Rate Experiment in Electricity

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Telecommunications Competition

The Last Ten Miles

The local and short distance telecommunications markets - the "last ten miles" - of the telecommunications industry are the target of this study. Info...

Local Telephone Pricing and Universal Telephone Service

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Sample Selection in the Los Angeles Electricity Rate Study

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The Effect of Time-of-use Rates

Facts Vs. Opinions

In a recent [Public Utilities Fortnightly] article, Hans Nissel questioned the calculations in an earlier RAND study and contended that time-of-use (T...

Regulated Industries and Public Enterprise

European and United States Perspectives

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Measuring Technological Change of Heterogeneous Products

Technological-change measures of heterogeneous products must account for their diverse characteristics. The central task of this report is to develop ...

Optimal Peak-load Pricing for Local Telephone Calls

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Utilization of the U.S. Telephone Network

Telephone penetration / demographic patterns of subscription / access lines / rates of calling / traffic measures / technological advances / price tre...

Health and Taxes

An Assessment of the Medical Deduction

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Incremental Capital Costs of Telephone Access and Local Use

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A Short Guide to Electric Utility Load Forecasting

Electric utilities, governmental energy agencies, and some private economic forecasting services make long-term forecasts of electricity and peak dema...

Repression Effects of Mandantory Vs. Optional Local Measured Telephone Service

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Optimal Peak-load Pricing for Local Telephone Calls

Technical Appendixes

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Response to Residential Time-of-use Electricity Rates

How Transferable are the Findings?

This report analyzes the results from three major experiments with time-of-use (TOU) electricity rates for residential customers. It finds that when c...

Cable, Cities, and Copyrights

The Federal Communications Commission has enacted final rules for cable television systems in the 100 largest television markets, restricting cable se...