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 …

restructuring, and consider areas where further reform may be warranted. It appears that market restructuring is now producing …

restructuring in the electricity generation industry. As numerous industries and economies have undergone this sort of transition to … tighter regulation. Using data from the electricity industry, this analysis considers the total effect of restructuring on one …

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 …

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 …

electricity reforms on the performance of the sector. Specifically, we investigate the effectiveness of the reforms in terms of … sector performance taking into consideration various performance indicators such as electricity access, generation per capita …