EVIDENCE OF ELECTRICITY THEFT FROM ELECTRIC UTILITIES IN PAKISTAN

Faisal Jamil and Eatzaz Ahmad

No 6031, International Conference on Energy, Regional Integration and Socio-economic Development from EcoMod

Abstract: The paper empirically investigates the effects of various economic, legal, meteorological and technical factors in explaining the theft from electric utilities in Pakistan. We obtained elasticity of electricity theft with respect to different variables mentioned. Panel data from nine utilities Fixed effects and Random effects modeling approach estimated through GMM and LSDV approachOur results indicate that per capita income has significant negative and electricity price positive effect on electricity theft with sufficiently high coefficient values. However, the probability of detection does not perform consistently in combating electricity theft in all the models showing poor deterrence. The impact of penalty i.e. fine on conviction however, depresses electricity theft.

Keywords: India; Pakistan; Srilanka; Bhutan; Nepal; Bangladesh; Afghanistan; Economic and financial effects of climate change; Socio-economic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-09-05
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