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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raj R Singh)
Thu Sep 8 21:43:06 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1994 21:42:56 EDT
From: Raj R Singh <rajsingh@MIT.EDU>
System name: olmsted
Type and version: POWER 7.7F (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: colorgda
What were you trying to do?
access Internet services, such as US Census.
What's wrong:
I get gobbledy-gook once I get to a certain level in the menu system. It seems like the menu systems are fine, but when it gets to a place where I am actually requesting data, my screen looks like this:
Abstract
Technical Inefficiency And Productive Decline In The U.S.
Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Industry Under The Natural Gas Policy Act
By Robin C. Sickles and Mary L. Streitwieser
CES 91-6 October 1991
The U.S. natural gas industry has undergone substantial change since
the enactment of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978. Although the
major focus of the NGPA was to initiate partial and gradual price
deregulation of natural gas at the well-head, the interstate
transmission industry was profoundly affected by changes in the
relative prices of competing fuels and contractual relationships among
producers, transporters, distributors, and end-users. This paper
assesses the impact of the NGPA on the technical efficiency and
productivity of fourteen interstate natural gas transmission firms for
the period 1978-1985. We focus on the distortionary effects that
resulted in the industry during a period in which changes in
regulatory policy could neither anticipate changing market conditions
nor rapidly adjust to those changes. Two alternative estimating
methodologies, stochastic frontier production analysis and data
envelopment analysis, are used to measure the firm-specific and
temporal distortionary effects. Concordant findings from these
alternative methodologies suggest a pervasive pattern of declining
technical efficiency in the industry during the period in which this
major regulatory intervention was introduced and implemented. The
representative firms experience an average annual decline in
efficiency of .55 percent over the sample period. In addition, it
appears that the industry suffered a decline in productivity during
the sample period, averaging -1.18 percent annually.
ftp to ftp.census.gov /pub/ces/ps/91-6.tar.Z to download Postscript Version.
WELL, YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS TEXT LOOKS FINE. I GUESS THAT'S BECAUSE THIS IS AN EMACS WINDOW. IN THE XTERM WINDOW IT LOOKS LIKE GOBBLEDY-GOOK!
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