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A welfare analysis of the electricity transmission regulatory regime in Germany
Kemfert, Claudia; Kunz, Friedrich; Rosellón, Juan - 2015
We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with both cost-plus and revenue-cap regulations. After reviewing international experiences on transmission investment, we first make a qualitative assessment of the overall German...
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Regulation and investment incentives in electricity distribution : an empirical assessment
Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015
's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional … specific heterogeneity. It should further include all institutional aspects of incentive regulation to design incentives that …
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FTR allocations to ease transition to nodal pricing : an application to the German power system
Kunz, Friedrich; Neuhoff, Karsten; Rosellón, Juan - 2014
A shift from zonal pricing to smaller zones and nodal pricing improves efficiency and security of system operation. Resulting price changes do however also shift profits and surplus between and across generation and load. As individual actorscan lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how...
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Two price zones for the German electricity market : market implications and distributional effects
Egerer, Jonas; Weibezahn, Jens; Hermann, Hauke - 2015
We discuss the implications of two price zones, i.e. one northern and southern bidding area, on the German electricity market. In the northern zone, continuous capacity additions with low variable costs cause large regional supply surpluses in the market dispatch while conventional capacity...
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Market power and heterogeneous pass-through in German electricity retail
Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - 2016
We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...
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Abuse of dominance and antitrust enforcement in the German electricity market
Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian; Böckers, Veit - 2017
In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...
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Gone with the wind? : electricity market prices and incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increasing wind energy supply
Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2009
The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back up units or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices....
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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade
Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012
The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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International benchmarking in electricity distribution : a comparison of French and German utilities
Cullmann, Astrid (contributor); Crespo, Hélène (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we present an international cross-country benchmarking analysis for utility regulation of France and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779463