Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Research Question -- Outline -- 1 Rate-of-Retum Regulation -- 1.1 Rate-of-Retum Regulation in the Gas, Telephone, and Electric Industries -- 1.2 The...

To evaluate the impact of regulation on the innovativeness of firms, this study considers the unusual case of electric utilities in the state of Texas. In the current era of deregulation, the electric utility industry in Texas is unique because its regulation was relatively limited until 1975,...