contrast to other European member states, there is no ex-ante regulation of network access charges. Instead, network access … relies on industrial self-regulation and ex-post control by the Cartel Office. The paper modifies the concept of regulatory …

This paper presents a social cost benefit analysis of ownership unbundling (as compared to legal und functional … unbundling) of the electricity transmission system operators in Germany. The study relies on the Residual Supply Index for its … effect of unbundling on capacity are of crucial importance. Overall, for the base-case, the net weighted discounted social …

television regulation in light of these developments. It surveys the dismal empirical record on the effects of price regulation …

The German energy industries will be subjected to regulation of network access enforced by a sector-specific regulator … resulted in a margin squeeze. The government currently discusses whether to use rate-of-return or incentive regulation, to …

progress of EU electricity sector liberalisation. These areas are market design, market power, EU enlargement, regulation, and …

this separation interact with the regulation of the product market. The main issue to be addressed here is how the degree …

been a shift from conventional rate of return regulation, and from earnings sharing schemes with profits caps, to prices …