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Peer Review Status: Unrefereed
Title: Contract Renegotiation and Rent Re-Redistribution: Who Gets Raked Over the Coals?
Author(s): Kosnik, Lea
Lange, Ian
Contact Email: i.a.lange@stir.ac.uk
Citation: Kosnik L & Lange I (2009) Contract Renegotiation and Rent Re-Redistribution: Who Gets Raked Over the Coals?. Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2009-25.
Keywords: Contract Renegotiation
Coal Contracts
Acid Rain
Industrial productivity History
Environmental permits
JEL Code(s): L51: Economics of Regulation
Q48: Energy: Government Policy
D23: Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
K32: Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Issue Date: 1-Dec-2009
Date Deposited: 6-Jan-2010
Series/Report no.: Stirling Economics Discussion Paper, 2009-25
Abstract: Policy shocks affect the rent distribution in long-term contracts, which can lead to such contracts being renegotiated. We seek an understanding of what aspects of contract design, in the face of a substantial policy shock, affect the propensity to renegotiate. We test our hypotheses using data on U.S. coal contracts after the policy shock of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments. This law altered the regulation of emissions of sulfur dioxide from coal-fired electric power plants, initiating a tradable permit system for a subset of coal-fired power plants which had previously been unregulated at the federal level. Contracts are divided into two categories, those that were renegotiated following the shock and those that were not and their characteristics are used to determine how they influence whether or not a contract was ultimately renegotiated. The number of years until the contract expires, a larger allowable sulfur content upper bound for plants regulated immediately by the tradable permit scheme, and the minimum quantity are all associated with a contract being renegotiated.
Type: Working Paper
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1953
Affiliation: University of Missouri - Columbia
Economics

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