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Impact of roaming regulation on revenues and prices of mobile operators in the EU
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Muñoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021
We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator's revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation. …
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Evaluating the impact of price caps : evidence from the European roam-like-at-home regulation
Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verboven, Frank; … - 2021
The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
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The energy community and the grid
Gautier, Axel; Jacqmin, Julien; Poudou, Jean-Christophe - 2023
Renewable energy communities involve various agents who decide to jointly invest in renewable production units and storage. This paper examines how these communities interact with the energy system and can decrease its overall cost. First, we show that a renewable energy community can contribute...
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A fair price for energy? : ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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Abuse of dominance and antitrust enforcement in the German electricity market
Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian; Böckers, Veit - 2017
In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735927
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Estimating the effects of regulation when treated and control firms compete : a new method with application to the EU ETS
Barrows, Geoffrey; Calel, Raphael; Jégard, Martin; … - 2023
This paper presents a method for estimating treatment effects of regulations when treated and control firms compete on the output market. We develop a GMM estimator that recovers reduced-form parameters consistent with a model of differentiated product markets with multi-plant firms, and use...
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The unemployment impact of product and labour market regulation : evidence from European countries
Piton, Céline; Rycx, François - 2018
This paper provides robust estimates of the impact of both product and labour market regulations on unemployment using data for 24 European countries over the period 1998-2013. Controlling for country-fixed effects, endogeneity and a large set of covariates, results show that product market...
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Vertical market power in interconnected natural gas and electricity markets
Marks, Levi; Mason, Charles F.; Mohlin, Kristina; … - 2017
consider improvements to market design and regulation as these two energy markets become increasingly interlinked. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735963
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The impact of consumer protection in the digital age : evidence from the European Union
Rösner, Anja; Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior … levels before the introduction of the regulation. This rich data set allows us to apply a difference-in-difference estimator …
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Green tradable certificates versus feed-in tariffs in the promotion of renewable energy shares
Requate, Tilman - 2014
The paper analyzes the relationship between CO2 mitigation policy and promotion policies designed to deploy renewable energy sources for electricity production (RES-E). If an emission cap is the only policy target, an optimal mix consisting of high and low carbon use of fossil fuels, deployment...
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