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How Do Electricity Shortages Affect Industry? Evidence from India / Hunt Allcott, Allan Collard-Wexler, Stephen D. O'Connell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allcott, Hunt.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19977.
- NBER working paper series no. w19977
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- We estimate the effects of electricity shortages on Indian manufacturers, instrumenting with supply shifts from hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues and producer surplus by five to ten percent, but average productivity losses are significantly smaller because most inputs can be stored during outages. Shortages distort the plant size distribution, as there are significant economies of scale in generator costs and shortages more severely affect plants without generators. Simulations show that offering interruptible retail electricity contracts could substantially reduce the impact of shortages.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- March 2014.
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