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미국 전력산업에서 기업의 소유권 형태에 따른 운영성과의 차이 분석

Ownership Structure and Performances: An Analysis of Cooperatives and Investor-Owned Utilities in the U.S. Electric Power Industry

  • 투고 : 2017.12.29
  • 심사 : 2018.02.08
  • 발행 : 2018.03.31
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본 연구는 미국 전력산업에서 협동조합과 민영전기사업자간의 소유권 형태의 차이가 기업의 운영성과에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 2001년부터 2014년까지의 패널데이타를 구축하여 비용함수, 이중차분법 등을 추정한 결과, 협동조합은 높은 이자비용과 제한된 자금조달 등 소유권 형태로 인해 자본이용에 제한이 있고 운영한계비용 또한 기업 규모에 따라 가파르게 증가하는 반면, 민영전기사업자의 경우 상대적으로 자유로운 자본접근성을 바탕으로 전력산업에 존재하는 규모의 경제를 잘 활용하고 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 그러나 본 연구에서 소유권 형태가 기업의 수익성에 미치는 영향은 찾지 못하였으며, 발전효율성과 소유권형태의 상관관계 또한 통계적으로 유의미하지 않은 것으로 분석되었다.

This study examines performances of cooperatives relative to investor-owned firms in the US electric power industry. Using a panel data of firms from 2001 to 2014, the results show that cooperatives operate under conditions of more difficult capital constraints associated with the higher cost of debt and limited access to external equity capital. While investor-owned utilities, especially the large utilities that are less capital constrained, take benefits from substantial scale economies existing in the industry, the marginal cost of operation substantially increases with output for cooperatives. I do not find differences in profitability between the two ownership structures, measured by return on assets and return on equity. Plant capacity utilization, which is a measure of plant efficiency conditional on the operation, is also not statistically different between the two groups.

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