Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108124 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IEHAS Discussion Papers No. MT-DP - 2008/4
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Abstract: 
Energy industries are mainly organised at national level in Hungary, however local governments have their specific role in the system. Local governments have been major performers in the first period of the transition process: they were entitled to receive 25 per cent of the shares in electric utilities and 40 per cent of the shares in gas supply during the privatisation process. They did not build up long standing portfolios in these utilities. They became more important players at district heating, where they have a contradictory triple function - owner, regulator and provider of the local social safety net. Local governments are also in the forefront of the energy saving programmes.
Subjects: 
energy industries
regulation
local governments
JEL: 
L43
L51
L97
Q48
ISBN: 
978-963-9796-13-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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