Papers, Op-Eds, Testimony and Presentations
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EU Emissions Trading System in Perspective (with A. Denny Ellerman)
Pew Center on Global Climate Change, May 2008
Investment in New Base Load Generating Capacity
EIA 30th Anniversary Conference, April 8, 2008
Lessons Learned from Electricity Market Liberalization
December 8, 2007
Transmission Network Congestion
Presentation, MIT CEEPR Fall Workshop, December 6-7, 2007
Capacity Payments in Imperfect Electricity Markets: Need and Design
Utilities Policy, 16:1590170, 2008. (reprints available for non-commercial use by sending an email request to the author)
Electricity from Uranium: The Prospects for Nuclear Power in the United States
The Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter 2007, 32-43.
Alternative System Operator Models
Presented at the Cambridge-MIT Electricity Workshop, London, September 28, 2007
Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
Rand Journal of Economics, 38(1), 60-84, Spring 2007 (published November 2007)
Reliability and Competitive Electricity Markets: Supplementary Material
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
Retail Electricy Competition
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
Rand Journal of Economics 37(4), Winter 2006, 799-815 (published September 2007)
Time and Location Differentiated NOx Control in Competitive Electricity Markets
Katherine Martin, Paul Joskow and Denny Ellerman
April 2007
Competitive Electricity Markets and Investment in New Generating Capacity
The New Energy Paradigm(Dieter Helm, Editor), Oxford University Press, 2007
Regulation of Natural Monopolies
August 2006. forthcoming in Handbook of Law and Economics 2007
Regulating Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
with M.A. de Figueiredo et. al.
April 2007
The Future of Coal
An Interdisciplinary MIT Study
March 2007
Prepared Remarks for FERC Technical Conference on Wholesale Electricity Markets
February 2007
The Future of Nuclear Power in the United States: Economic and Regulatory Challenges
December 2006, Prepared for the American Enterprise Institute Workshop on Nuclear Power
Supply Security in Competitive Electricity and Natural Gas Markets
Beesley Lecture, London, December, 2005; published in Utility Regulation in Competitive Markers (c.Robinson ed., Edward Elgar Press) June 2007
Vertical Integration
December 2006, Issues in Competition Law and Policy/ ABA Antitrust Section, forthcoming (2008)
Incentive Regulation for Electricity Networks
Spring 2006, CESifo DICE Report, 2/2006
Future Prospects for Nuclear Power: A U.S. Perspective
May 2006, University of Paris-Dauphine (Lecture/Presentation)
Energy Security and CO2 Emissions
March 2006, University of Paris-Dauphine Presentations
Designing Wholesale Electricity Markets
March 2006, University of Paris-Dauphine (Lecture/presentation)
Markets for Power in the United States: An Interim Assessment
Paul L. Joskow
January 2006, The Energy Journal 27(1), 1-36
Incentive Regulation in Theory and Practice: Electric Transmission and Distribution Networks (revised)
Paul L. Joskow
January 2006, Prepared for National Bureau of Economic Research Economic Regulation Project
Merchant Transmission Investment
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
June 2005, Journal of Industrial Economics 53(2), pp. 233-264.
Transmission Policy in the United States
Paul L. Joskow
Winter 2005, Utilities Policy 2005, Volume 13, pp. 95-115
Why Capacity Obligations and Capacity Markets?
June 2005, "The Economics of Electricity Markets," Toulouse, France
Vertical Integration
Spring 2005, Handbook of New Institutional Economics, 2005, Springer/Kluwer
Resource Adequacy (Again)
March 2005, Presentation, Mass Electricity Restructuring Roundtable
Patterns of Transmission Investment
March 2005, Electricity Infrastructure Investment Workshop, CRE, Paris, France
Regulation and Deregulation After 25 Years: Lessons for Research in Industrial Organization
Paul L. Joskow
October 2004, Review of Industrial Organization 26:169-193 (2005)
Wholesale Power Markets in the United States
Paul L. Joskow
July 2004, European Forum on Electricity Reforms (SESSA), Cambridge, England, July 14-15, 2004
New Institutional Economics: A Report Card
September 2003, ISNIE Presidential Address- Budapest, Hungary; Revised, June 2004
Electricity Restructuring: Lessons Learned
December 2003, Latin American Economic Review
Energy Policies and Their Consequences After 25 Years
Paul L. Joskow
October 2003, The Energy Journal, Volume 24, Number 4
The Blackout
Paul L. Joskow
August 2003
The Future of Nuclear Power
MIT Faculty Study Group
July 2003
Emissions Trading in the United States
P. Joskow, A. D. Ellerman and D. Harrison
May 2003, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Difficult Transition to Competitive Electricity Markets in the U.S.
May 2003, Bush Presidential Conference Center
Merchant Transmission Investment
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
May 2003
FERC SMD NOPR Comments
January 2003
A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000
Paul Joskow and Edward Kahn
December 2002, The Energy Journal
Statement of Professor Paul L. Joskow Before The Senate Committee on Govermental Affairs
November 2002
Retail Competition in the U.S.
July 2002, Oviedo, Spain
Clearing the Polluted Sky
Paul Joskow and A. Denny Ellerman
May 2002, The New York Times
Transaction Cost Economics, Antitrust Rules and Remedies
April 2002, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000: The Final Word
Paul Joskow and Ed Kahn
February 2002
California's Electricity Crisis
December 2001, Oxford Review of Economic Policy Volume 17
Regional Transmission Organizations: Don't Settle for Nth Best
September 2001, Presentation
Identifying the Exercise of Market Power: Refining the Estimates
Paul Joskow and Edward Kahn
July 2001
U.S. Energy Policy During the 1990s
January 2002, American Economic Policy in the 1990s (eds., Frankel and Orszag) MIT Press
The Right Answer to the Energy Crunch Boston Globe Op Ed
June 2001, The Boston Globe
U.S. Senate Testimony
June 2001
California's Electricity Market Meltdown
Paul L. Joskow
January 2001, The New York Times
A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior In California's Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000
January 2001
Transmission Rights and Market Power on Electric Power Networks
Fall 2000, Rand Journal of Economics, 31(3)
Transaction Cost Economics and Competition Policy
October 2000
FERC RTO NOPR Comments
August 1999
Transmission Rights and Market Power on Electic Power Networks
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
January 2000
Why Do We Need Electricity Retailers? or Can You Get It Cheaper Retail?
January 2000
FERC RTO NOPR Reply Comments
September 1999
Transmission Rights and Market Power on Electric Power Networks I: Financial Rights
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
November 1998
Transmission Rights and Market Power on Electric Power Networks II: Physical Rights
Paul Joskow and Jean Tirole
December 1998