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This paper contrasts direct election with political appointment of regulators. When regulators are appointed, regulatory policy becomes bundled with other policy issues for which the appointing politicians are responsible. Since regulatory issues are not salient for most voters, regulatory...
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Starting in 1998, the electricity market in England and Wales will be opened up to full competition, and all consumers … will be allowed to choose their electricity supplier. This promises to result in lower prices, but there will be additional … are likely to be large transfers from electricity companies (and the coal industry) to consumers, but the companies lose …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate how energy policy should respond to the changes in the organisation of energy sector associated with privatisation. The paper begins with a brief review of how energy policy was perceived before the 1973 oil shock, and the lessons learned from...
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This paper seeks to bridge the gap between economists focused on designing competitive market mechanisms and engineers focused on the physical attributes and engineering requirements they perceive as being needed for operating a reliable electric power system. The paper starts by deriving the...
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This is a preliminary draft of an Invited Symposium paper for the World Congress of the Econometric Society to be held in Seattle in August 2000. We discuss the strong connections between auction theory and 'standard' economic theory, and argue that auction-theoretic tools and intuitions can...
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We develop a theoretical model of long-run investment decisions on capacity in the context of a liberalized electricity …
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Several regulatory authorities worldwide have recently imposed forward contract obligations on electricity producers as … bidding in electricity markets, or in any other auction-based market. For this purpose, we introduce forward contracts in a …
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, electricity and a composite good, "other fuels". This composite good is subject to such large measurement errors in the data set … and electricity consumption and it is shown how the model's structural parameters, i.e. those of household preferences … presented and the diversity of implied price and income elasticities is emphasized. Both gas and electricity are found to be …
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discuss radiospectrum and football TV-rights auctions, electricity markets, and takeover battles), and the Anglo-Dutch auction …
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Motivated by the regulatory debate in electricity markets, we seek to understand how market design affects market …
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