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100			_aRyan, Nicholas _929572
245			_aThe competitive effects of transmission infrastructure in the Indian electricity market
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal Macroeconomics
300			_a13(2), May, 2021: p.202-242
520			_aThe integration of markets may improve efficiency by lowering costs or reducing local market power. India, seeking to reduce electricity shortages, set up a new power market, in which transmission constraints sharply limit trade between regions. During congested hours, measures of market competitiveness fall and firms raise bid prices. I use confidential bidding data to estimate the costs of power supply and simulate market outcomes with more transmission capacity. Counterfactual simulations show that transmission expansion increases market surplus by 22 percent, enough to justify the investment. One-third of this gain is due to sellers' response to a more integrated grid. – Reproduced
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal Macroeconomics
906			_aELECTRICITY
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