Publication: The smaller the market, the better the rent capturing: electrification in North Portugal during the Interwar Period
dc.contributor.author | Bartolomé Rodríguez, Isabel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-05T14:49:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-05T14:49:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article analyses the origin of the persistently high level of electricity prices that hampered the expansion of electricity consumption during the interwar period in Porto. Initially, the rent-seeking behaviour of both the supply firm and the City Hall at the local level affected the expansion of the local electricity market. During the 1930s, this collusion at municipal level coincided with unpredictable energy policies at state level. This circumstance impeded the indispensable increase of scale and the building of a regional market of electricity in north Portugal. The literature on regulation and institutional analysis has proved very useful. Finally, though equally important, primary sources from company archives and institutional bodies were also employed. | en |
dc.description.abstract | Este artículo analiza el origen de los elevados precios de la electricidad en Oporto entre las dos guerra mundiales y su secuela, su lenta electrificación. La colusión entre la compañía suministradora y el municipio limitó la expansión al comenzar el servicio hidroeléctrico; luego, la expectativa reiteradamente frustrada de una mayor intervención gubernamental fue en detrimento de mayores inversiones. Se impidió así el necesario aumento de escala, la plena integración del mercado eléctrico del Norte de Portugal y, en consecuencia, los precios eléctricos se mantuvieron elevados y la electrificación sufrió un persistente atraso. La adopción de una perspectiva institucional se ha revelado muy útil para esclarecer el funcionamiento de este mercado, que se ha examinado consultando fuentes empresariales, municipales y gubernamentales. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | This research has been financed by the Fundaçao Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal. | |
dc.format.extent | 34 | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitation | Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History (Second Series) / Volume 30 / Issue 02 / September 2012, pp 287-320 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610912000018 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0212-6109 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2041-3335 (online) | |
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage | 287 | |
dc.identifier.publicationissue | 2 | |
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage | 320 | |
dc.identifier.publicationtitle | Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History | es |
dc.identifier.publicationvolume | 30 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25183 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales | es |
dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España | |
dc.rights.accessRights | open access | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ | |
dc.subject.eciencia | Economía | es |
dc.subject.eciencia | Historia | es |
dc.subject.jel | N44 | |
dc.subject.jel | N74 | |
dc.subject.jel | N84 | |
dc.subject.jel | Q48 | |
dc.subject.jel | L94 | |
dc.subject.other | Portugal | |
dc.subject.other | Electricity rates | en |
dc.subject.other | Electricity markets | en |
dc.subject.other | Utility regulation | en |
dc.subject.other | Interwar period | en |
dc.subject.other | Tarifas eléctricas | es |
dc.subject.other | Mercados eléctricos | es |
dc.subject.other | Regulación | es |
dc.subject.other | Período de entreguerras | es |
dc.title | The smaller the market, the better the rent capturing: electrification in North Portugal during the Interwar Period | en |
dc.type | research article | * |
dc.type.hasVersion | VoR | * |
dc.type.review | PeerReviewed | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication |
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