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On the Efficiency of Competitive Electricity Markets With Time-Invariant Retail Prices
Borenstein, Severin - 2003
The standard economic model of efficient competitive markets relies on the ability of sellers to charge prices that vary as their costs change. Yet, there is no restructured electricity market in which most retail customers can be charged realtime prices (RTP), prices that can change as...
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Wealth Transfers from Implementing Real-Time Retail Electricity Pricing
Borenstein, Severin - 2005
Adoption of real-time electricity pricing -- retail prices that vary hourly to reflect changing wholesale prices -- removes existing cross-subsidies to those customers that consume disproportionately more when wholesale prices are highest. If their losses are substantial, these customers are...
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The Impact of Market Rules and Market Structure on the Price Determination Process in the England and Wales Electricity Market
Wolak, Frank A. - 2001
This paper argues that the market rules governing the operation of the England and Wales electricity market in combination with the structure of this market presents the two major generators National Power and PowerGen with opportunities to earn revenues substantially in excess of their costs of...
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A Quantitative Analysis of Pricing Behavior in California's Wholesale Electricity Market During Summer 2000
Joskow, Paul - 2001
We simulate competitive benchmark wholesale prices for electricity in California during the summer of 2000, taking account of changes in natural gas prices, electricity demand, and imports of electricity from other states during this time period. We also examine the impact of changes in the...
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Electricity Retail Rate Design in a Decarbonized Economy : An Analysis of Time-Of-Use and Critical Peak Pricing
Schittekatte, Tim; Mallapragada, Dharik; Joskow, Paul L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Currently, most U.S. electricity consumers pay a constant price per kWh consumed that accounts for most of their bill. Ongoing developments in the power system increase efficiency gains that can be made from exposing consumers to widely varying wholesale spot prices. Pure spot pricing is not...
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Energy Hogs and Energy Angels : What Does Residential Electricity Usage Really Tell Us About Profligate Consumption?
Borenstein, Severin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since the 1970s, high volumetric (per kilowatt-hour) electricity prices have been justified in many policy discussions as encouraging more efficient use of electricity and placing more of the cost burden on those who are less prudent in their use. The argument has been used in support of...
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Retail Electricity Competition
Joskow, Paul L. - 2004
We analyze a number of unstudied aspects of retail electricity competition. We first explore the implications of load … homogeneous up to a scaling factor. In general, the combination of retail competition and load profiling does not yield the second … consumption, retail competition yields the Ramsey prices even when consumers can only partially respond to variations in real time …
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Competing with Costco and Sam's Club : Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices
Courtemanche, Charles J. - 2011
Prior research shows grocery stores reduce prices to compete with Walmart Supercenters. This study finds evidence that the competitive effects of two other big box retailers - Costco and Walmart-owned Sam's Club - are quite different. Using city-level panel grocery price data matched with a...
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Vertical Arrangements, Market Structure, and Competition An Analysis of Restructured U.S. Electricity Markets
Bushnell, James B. - 2007
This paper examines vertical arrangements in electricity markets. Vertically integrated wholesalers, or those with long-term contracts, have less incentive to raise wholesale prices when retail prices are determined beforehand. For three restructured markets, we simulate prices that define...
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Equilibrium Price Dispersion Across and Within Stores
Menzio, Guido - 2015
We develop a search-theoretic model of the product market that generates price dispersion across and within stores. Buyers differ with respect to their ability to shop around, both at different stores and at different times. The fact that some buyers can shop from only one seller while others...
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