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Hospital Readmission in General Medicine Patients: A Prediction Model
BackgroundPrevious studies of hospital readmission have focused on specific conditions or populations and generated complex prediction models.
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Portfolio-Based Electricity Generation Planning: Policy Implications For Renewables And Energy Security
Renewable generating technologies offer an effective means for climate change mitigation. Policy makers, however, are wary because of the widespread...
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Postal ABC
Economists have always been critical of accounting costs. This is particularly true in the regulatory economic literature. For example, Bradley,...
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Transmission — Enabler of Wholesale Competition
Traditionally, the electric utility industry has been structured as a vertically integrated regulated monopoly. This began to change in the 1980s...
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Editor’s Introduction and Reader’s Guide to this Book
The Context: What Is the Virtual Utility? The current transformation of the US electric utility industry is not dissimilar to the...
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The Virtual Utility: Some Introductory Thoughts on Accounting, Learning and the Valuation of Radical Innovation
This paper examines the problems associated with the application of traditional capital budgeting practices to the valuation of radically new...
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Depreciation and profitability under rate of return regulation
This paper examines the widely-held notion that the regulatory approach to setting earnings equalizes the accounting and internal rates of return,...
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Efficient Income Measures and the Partially Regulated Firm
Utility company managers (and most business people) are often surprised to learn that accounting income and rate-of-return measures have little...
