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The late twentieth century witnessed significant shifts in the institutions and processes of governance in most members states of the OECD, as direct provision (sometimes characterised as welfare state governance) was, to some degree, displaced by the rise of the regulatory state. Changes in the...
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European private regulation pre-existed European Community law and co-exists with it today, giving rise to different … forms of complementarity with European legislation. While in the initial stage of jus commune, a stronger role for co-regulation … regulatory State and the more recent transformations of regulatory strategies have brought up new forms of co-regulation with …
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Power Exchanges (PXs) are key market institutions in open and market-based electricity industries. This paper aims at contributing to the ongoing debate on why and how to regulate Power Exchanges in the EU market integration context. . The paper starts by stating that two different types of PXs...
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When building a cross-border transmission line (a so-called interconnector) as a for-profit (merchant) project, where the regulator has required that capacity allocation be done non-discriminatorily by explicit auction, the identity of the investor can affect the profitability of the...
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This paper discusses the relevant cost standard for the economic replicability test for Next-Generation Access (NGA) networks, described in the Recommendation on Costing and Non-discrimination adopted by the European Commission. According to the Recommendation itself, in order to reconcile...
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Onshore, generators are connected to the transmission grid by TSOs. This regulatory model could simply be extended to offshore (i.e. Germany), but the connection of offshore wind farms to shore is also an opportunity to test alternatives, i.e. the third party model (i.e. the UK) or the generator...
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European regulation of the media is influenced by the economic regulation of networks, contents, and e-commerce, to … which it is very close. However, media regulation has one peculiar differentiating characteristic: it cannot concentrate … only on market competition, as the rest of modern economic regulation does, but has to pursue other fundamental values. In …
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For many years, electronic communications has been one of the most important areas of policy intervention for the European Union. Liberalisation and privatisation of the telecommunications industry were very important topics of the policy debate in the two decades from 1990 to 2010. In these...
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This paper discusses the relevant cost standard for the economic replicability test for Next-Generation Access (NGA) networks, described in the Recommendation on Costing and Non-discrimination adopted by the European Commission. According to the Recommendation itself, in order to reconcile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814452
This paper compares the development of the institutions for regulation of the natural gas transportation systems in the … actors involved. Our exploration is based on a systematic search of the literature on the US and EU regulation of the natural …
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