Compared to traditional cost-of-service (COS) regulation, electricity retail competition may lead to lower costs but … higher markups. Thus, the net effect on electricity retail prices is ambiguous. This paper uses a difference … long run. Overall, retail compettion does not seem to deliver lower electricity prices to retail customers across the board …

The main Nordic residential electricity markets (Norway, Sweden and Finland) effectively opened to retail competition …

Long-term contracts for electricity can counter market power and reduce prices in short-term markets. If electricity …? This paper combines a model of electricity retailing and a Cournot model of competition in the wholesale markets to …

This thesis reviews restructuring efforts of the electricity market in Latin America. The work first examines the … consumption is described as well as their experiences undergone before and after electricity restructuring. A summary section is … restructuring and privatization, and antitrust theory. Next, five countries are selected due to their leadership role in electric …

We look at the effects of restructuring on three issues: (a) economic surplus and environmental quality, (b) the cost … the SIP Call region. We find that without the NOx cap, nationwide restructuring leads to higher NOx and carbon emissions … from the electricity sector. Adding either a seasonal or an annual NOx cap-and-trade regime in the eastern United States …

generation performance standard as alternative approaches for distributing carbon emission allowances in the electricity sector …. We solve a detailed national electricity market model and find the auction is roughly one-half the societal cost of the … competition in the electricity sector. The differences in the cost of the approaches flow from the effect of each approach on …

) emissions from electricity generation in the eastern U.S. Under each of 18 scenarios examined, we find an annual policy would …

generation performance standard as alternative approaches for distributing carbon emission allowances in the electricity sector …. We solve a detailed national electricity market model and find the auction is roughly one-half the societal cost of the … competition in the electricity sector. The differences in the cost of the approaches flow from the effect of each approach on …