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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688775
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002203377
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438038
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301346
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439406
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434085
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009579625
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Information sharing and cross-border entry in European banking
Giannetti, Caterina; Jentzsch, Nicola; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2010
Information asymmetries can severely limit cross-border border expansion of banks. When a bank enters a new market, it has incomplete information about potential new clients. Such asymmetries are reduced by credit registers, which distribute financial data on bank clients. We investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003939712
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Deregulation and enterprization in Central and Eastern telecommunication : a benchmark for the West?
Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 1996
question for the first time in Eastern Europe. We start to address the two relevant policy issues: modes of regulation, and … Partei und dem Staat geschaffenes Instrument zur Regulierung von Informationsflüssen. In Osteuropa werden seit 1990 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667616
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Economic Integration and Investment Incentives in Regulated Industries
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The paper studies the impact of market integration on investment incentives in non-competitive industries. It distinguishes between investment in transportation and production cost-reducing technologies. Each domestic firm is controlled by a national regulator in a common market made of two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012490