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Baake, Pio; Sudaric, Slobodan - 2016

We analyze pricing and competition under paid prioritization within a model of interconnected internet service providers (ISPs), heterogeneous content providers (CPs) and heterogeneous consumers. We show that prioritization is welfare superior to a regime without prioritization (network...

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Development scenarios for the North and Baltic Sea grid : a welfare economic analysis

Egerer, Jonas; Kunz, Friedrich; Hirschhausen, Christian … - 2012

The North and Baltic Sea Grid is one of the largest pan-European infrastructure projects raising high hopes regarding the potential of harnessing large amounts of renewable electricity, but also concerns about the implementation in largely nationally dominated regulatory regimes. The paper...

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New networks, competition and regulation

Baake, Pio (contributor); Kameckey, Ulrich (contributor) - 2006

structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices … network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare …

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Corporate self-regulation vs. ex-ante regulation of network access : a model of the German gas sector

Meran, Georg (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper compares the outcomes of corporate self-regulation and traditional ex-ante regulation of network access to … monopolistic bottlenecks. In the model of self-regulation, the domestic gas supplier and network owner and the monopsonistic gas …-ante regulation. We find that while industrial self-regulation leads to an exploitation of households, the effect on the foreign …

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Mobile phone termination charges with asymmetric regulation

Baake, Pio (contributor); Mitusch, Kay (contributor) - 2005

We model competition between two unregulated mobile phone companies with price-elastic demand and less than full market coverage. We also assume that there is a regulated full-coverage fixed network. In order to induce stronger competition, mobile companies could have an incentive to raise their...

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Technical efficiency and CO2 reduction potentials : an analysis of the German electricity generating sector

Seifert, Stefan; Cullmann, Astrid; Hirschhausen, … - 2014

In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency of CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a non-parametric sequential Data Envelopment Analysis. We apply a metafrontier framework to evaluate plant-level efficiencies in the transformation of inputs into desirable...

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Local power markets

Baake, Pio; Schwenen, Sebastian; Hirschhausen, … - 2020

In current power markets, the bulk of electricity is sold wholesale and transported to consumers via long-distance transmission lines. Recently, decentralized local power markets have evolved, often as isolated networks based on solar generation. We analyze strategic pricing, investment, and...

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Konzessionsmodelle für Fernstraßen in Deutschland : eine ökonomische Analyse der Risikoallokation beim F- und A-Modell

Beckers, Thorsten; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2003

In diesem Beitrag wird die Risikoallokation bei Betreibermodellen für Bundesfernstraßen nach dem F- und A-Modell untersucht. Zunächst werden kurz die Defizite des traditionellen Modells der Herstellung und Bereitstellung von Fernstraßen in Deutschland dargestellt und die Struktur der beiden...

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Power utility re-regulation in East European and CIS transformation countries (1990-1999) : an institutional interpretation

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Opitz, Petra - 2001

This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of … indicators are wholesale and retail prices, cost coverage ratios, investment levels, and the degree of unbundling and …Der Beitrag untersucht die Re-Regulierung der Stromwirtschaften in den osteuropäischen Transformationsländern zwischen …

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Renewable electric energy integration : quantifying the value of design of markets for international transmission capacity

Neuhoff, Karsten; Boyd, Rodney; Grau, Thilo; Barquin, Julian - 2011

Integrating large quantities of supply-driven renewable electricity generation remains a political and operational challenge. One of the main obstacles in Europe to installing at least 200 GWs of power from variable renewable sources is how to deal with the insufficient network capacity and the...

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