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Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage

Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...

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Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets

Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

market regulation have motivated this quality improvement. In particular we show that this rise in quality is only profitable …

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An economic analysis of online streaming. How the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing

Thomes, Tim Paul - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This paper investigates the upcoming business model of online streaming services allowing music consumers either to subscribe to a service which provides free-of-charge access to streaming music and which is funded by advertising, or to pay a monthly flat fee in order to get ad-free access to...

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An economic analysis of online streaming: How the music industry can generate revenues from cloud computing

Thomes, Tim Paul - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

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Financial intermediaries and emissions trading market development and pricing strategies

Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper examines the role of intermediaries in quantity regulation theoretically and presents a data application to …

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Static vs. dynamic impacts of unbundling: Electricity markets in South America

Schober, Dominik - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

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...

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A vision of the European energy future? The impact of the German response to the Fukushima earthquake

Grossi, Luigi; Heim, Sven; Waterson, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...

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Idiosyncratic risk and the cost of capital: The case of electricity networks

Schober, Dominik; Schäffler, Stephan; Weber, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

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 ….0 percentage points depending on the size of the firm (in the range of 3% to 40% of total cost of capital). Regulation of …

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Mitigating market power under tradeable permits

Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

As shown by R. Hahn [6], free allocation equal to the amount of permits a firm with market power uses in equilibrium, can prevent welfare losses. If the necessary amount of free allocation is not provided to the firm with market power, a second best solution is obtained where marginal abatement...

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Mobile network interconnection and investments

Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

, investments increase off-net traffic from the investor’s network but also from competitors’ networks. Regulation changes the … functions. Testing for a common regulation-investment effect provides evidence that the negative investment externality is not … due to regulation. …

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