The Financial and Operational Impacts of FERC Order 636 on the Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry |
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Authors: | Finnoff David Cramer Curtis Shaffer Sherrill |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 161400, Orlando, FL, 32816-1400;(2) Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, 82071-3985 |
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Abstract: | The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Order 636 fundamentally altered the regulatory and operational environment of the natural gas industry in 1992, as the culmination of several directives aimed at relaxing regulation and fostering competition. We hypothesize that gas pipeline firms subsequently changed their operational and financial behavior in ways consistent with reduced balkanization, increased competition, and reduced expense preference behavior. Our results indicate that these firms have become more homogeneous financially but less so operationally. We find evidence that the marginal profitability of various pipeline activities has responded more to financial market conditions than to the regulatory environment. |
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Keywords: | gas pipeline expense preference regulation |
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