Jarvis, Michael F., Burgard, Edward C., McGaraughty, Steve, Honore, Prisca, Lynch, Kevin, Brennan, Timothy J., ...
P2X3 and P2X2/3 receptors are highly localized on peripheral and central processes of sensory afferent nerves, and activation of these channels contributes to the pronociceptive effects of ATP....
Jarvis, Michael F., Burgard, Edward C., McGaraughty, Steve, Honore, Prisca, Lynch, Kevin, Brennan, Timothy J., ...
P2X3 and P2X2/3 receptors are highly localized on peripheral and central processes of sensory afferent nerves, and activation of these channels contributes to the pronociceptive effects of ATP....
Electricity Markets and Energy Security: Friends or Foes?
For a host of economic, geopolitical, and environmental reasons, the security of energy supplies has moved to the forefront of U.S. policy concerns. Here, I address the extent to which the U.S....
Stranded Costs, Takings, and the Law and Economics of Implicit Constracts.
Brennan, Timothy J, Boyd, James
Economic Analysis can help resolve the stranded cost controversy that has arisen in debates over electricity market deregulation. "Stranded costs" are costs electric utilities will not recover as...
Cross-Subsidization and Cost Misallocation by Regulated Monopolists.
While cross-subsidization is understood theoretically as involving the sustainability of a cost allocation scheme, it is invoked in regulatory policy contexts, such as the divestiture of AT&T, where...
Market Failures in Real-Time Metering
Policies to promote real-time metering (RTM) require more than showing benefits from more timely responses to variations in cost. They require positive externalities to imply that too few meters...
Comparing the Costs and Benefits of Diversification by Regulated Firms.
Brennan, Timothy J, Palmer, Karen
Previous work on the diversification of regulated firms has focused exclusively on either the costs of cross-subsidy or on the welfare gains resulting from economies of scope. Using theory and...
Political Economy and the Efficiency of Compensation for Takings
Timothy J. Brennan, James Boyd
To assess compensation for regulation-induced "takings," the authors model political support for regulation as a function of externalities, landowner wealth, and tax burdens. When competing social...
Making Economic Sense of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 on the structural regulation of the telephone industry after ATST divestiture. It begins with a review of the...
The distribution grid for delivering electricity to the user has been paid for as part of the charge per kilowatt-hour that covers the cost of the energy itself. Conservation advocates have promoted...
Is the Benefit of Reserve Requirements in the “Reserve” or the “Requirement”?
Reliability in electricity markets is, in many respects, a public good, in that one supplier’s failure to meet its customers’ demands can cause failure throughout the grid. This creates a...
The Spectrum as Commons: Tomorrow's Vision, Not Today's Prescription.
Eli Noam has proposed using nascent technologies to treat the electromagnetic spectrum as an open-access commons rather than as a subdivided collection of property rights. In his view, public...