This paper offers a non-technical overview of the issues involved when applying cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to hydropower, both in terms of new installations and changing existing regulatory structures. Our focus is on the conceptual and empirical problems of applying CBA to provide decision...

We provide consistent, cross-country estimates of price and income elasticity for 11 OECD countries, using data from a survey conducted by the OECD in 2011. Using data for annual consumption of electricity and sample-derived average electricity price, we provide country specific price elasticity...