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individual commitment in the public regulation building. Economists participate to the electricity sector re-organization by … in the first part of the twentieth century. It aims at showing how the organization of electricity sector and its … regulation were largely the fruits of the economists' works not only at a theoretical point of view, but also trough their …
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There might be various aims for the vertical separation in railways such as the one instituted by the European … railways undertakings. So a dispute resolution system is necessary. First, this dispute resolution system is costly and thus …
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This paper aims at understanding and assessing the main methods proposed by ETSO and EuroPEX [1] to define and allocate interconnection capacities in Europe. We model these methods and evaluate their technical and economic efficiency on a 7-node network. We find first, that, unsurprisingly, the...
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This paper aims to investigate the transition to a new energy system based on hydrogen in the European liberalized framework. After analyzing the literature on the hydrogen infrastructure needs in Europe, we estimate the size and scope of the transition challenge.We take the theoretical...
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market by taking into account the existence of possible cross-spillovers between the French carbon and the French electricity … there is no short run relationship between the electricity and carbon returns, while there is a long run relationship …. However, this relationship suffers from a disequilibrium in that the electricity price readjust in the long run. We also find …
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Network regulation is playing an active role in a context of restructuring energy systems for long term transition to a … smart grid. Regulation of network companies' activities should consider both cost efficiency objectives and other objectives … such as quality and network innovation. It is in this context that incentive regulation tools are discussed and assessed in …
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The contemporary tensions between patents and competition no longer reside in the traditional trade-off between the exclusionary right given to an inventor to encourage innovation, and the welfare loss induced by the market power associated to this right. They rather result from three important...
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Council Regulation (EC) 1/2003 came into force in May 2004 and replaced the mandatory notification of agreements by a …
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We consider an oligopolistic industry including leveraged firms and unleveraged ones where firms are engaged in a sequential decision-making process. At the first stage of the game, a firm and her bank, considering the demand uncertainty and the distribution probability of the shock, evaluate a...
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Patent pools are cooperative agreements between several patent owners to bundle the sale of their respective licenses. In this paper we analyze their consequences on the speed of the innovation process. We adopt an ex ante perspective and study the impact of possible pool formation on the...
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