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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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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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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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Motivated by the regulatory debate in electricity markets, we seek to understand how market design affects market …
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The EU faces challenges in reforming the Gas and Electricity Directives to implement the single market in electricity …
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Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...
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We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and markups. Using disaggregated data for EU manufacturing over the period 1988-2000 we find increased openness exerts a negative and significant impact on sectoral prices. Increased...
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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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