Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and … political discussions. Focusing on the South American electricity sector, I contrast static and dynamic impacts of ownership … unbundling and third party access regimes on customer prices. Substantially different results are found using dynamic rather than …

In German electricity submarkets for residential customers standard contracts offered by former monopolists are the … retail electricity submarkets using simultaneous equation approach and can find support for our hypothesis. In particular for …

hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless …, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and their cause and effect in wholesale electricity markets are scarce …

We analyze the treatment and impact of idiosyncratic or firm-specific risk in regulation. Regulatory authorities … regulation. In contrast, it is common to apply only a single benchmark, the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), uniformly to … electricity network operators. In a simulation model for Germany, we find that capital costs increase by approximately 0.2 to 3 …

-out decision by the German government has significantly affected electricity prices and thus competitiveness in neighbouring …

, there is a need for unbundling regulation to foster competition. Improvements to the current open-network regulation …

, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in 'black' areas, where several independent infrastructure …