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dynamic generation settings. Through application in a stylized two-node network, we find that incentive regulation may perform … motivates further research aimed to characterize optimal regulation for transmission expansion in the context of renewable …
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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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The informationally simple approach to incentive regulation applies mechanisms that translate the regulator’s objective …
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To date, the distributive implications of incentive regulation on electricity transmission networks have not been … efficiency under price-cap regulation have not yet been identified. To discern these parameters is the motivation for the … price-cap incentive regulation for electricity transmission. We find that a regulator's use of ideal (Laspeyres) weights …
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with the welfare-maximum benchmark and cases of Transco with cost-plus regulation and no regulation. In all tested cases …
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'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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We revisit key elements of European power market design with respect to both short term operation and longer-term investment and re-investment choices. For short term markets, the European policy debate focuses on the definition of common interfaces, like for example gate closure time. We argue...
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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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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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High growth firms (HGFs) are important for job creation and considered to be precursors of economic growth. We investigate how product- and labor-market regulations, as well as the quality of regional governments that implement these regulations, affect HGF development across European regions....
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