Bushnell, James2015-05-182022-07-072015-05-182022-07-0720132013https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/19306Attitudes towards the proper form of organisation and regulation of the electricity sector have shifted several times over the past two decades. These shifts include a wave of liberalisation that encompassed many regions of the world, and more recently a backlash against many of these policies. Drawing largely from the U.S. experience, this talk discusses the political economy of electricity restructuring and explores the economic arguments for and against liberalisation.pdfen-NZPermission to publish research outputs of the New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation has been granted to the Victoria University of Wellington Library. Refer to the permission letter in record: https://ir.wgtn.ac.nz/handle/123456789/18870electrcityregulationrestructuringText