Empirical analysis of the impact of 2003 blackout on security values of U.S. utilities and electrical equipment manufacturing firms

Sung Kwan Joo, Jang Chul Kim, Chen Ching Liu

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Abstract

On August 14, 2003, the U.S. faced the largest blackout in history, which left over 50 million people without electricity in eight U.S. states and part of Canada. This paper investigates the effects of the blackout on the security values of the U.S. electric utilities and manufacturing firms in the electric power equipment industry, using an event study method. The results of this empirical study show that the electric utilities were negatively affected, but the electrical equipment manufacturing firms were significantly, positively affected.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1012-1018
Number of pages7
JournalIEEE Transactions on Power Systems
Volume22
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007 Aug

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 16, 2007. This work was supported by MOCIE under the EIRC program with APSRC at Korea University. Paper no. TPWRS-00117-2007. S.-K. Joo is with the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (e-mail: [email protected]). J.-C. Kim is with the Department of Finance, College of Business, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). C.-C. Liu is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TPWRS.2007.901278

Keywords

  • Blackout
  • Electric utilities
  • Risk analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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