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Who (Else) Benefits from Electricity Deregulation? Coal Prices, Natural Gas and Price Discrimination
Hughes, Jonathan E. - 2019
, distributional effects have been more difficult to assess. In the electricity sector, deregulation has vastly increased information … impact of deregulation. This also means policies that change fuel prices can have substantially different effects on …
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Mergers in the Digital Economy
Gautier, Axel - 2020
Over the period 2015-2017, the five giant technologically leading firms, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft (GAFAM) acquired 175 companies, from small start-ups to billion dollar deals. By investigating this intense M&A, this paper ambitions a better understanding of the Big Five's...
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Softening the Blow : U.S. State-Level Banking Deregulation and Sectoral Reallocation after the China Trade Shock
Ruslanova, Lilia; Hoffmann, Mathias - 2021
U.S. state-level banking deregulation during the 1980’s mitigated the impact of the China trade shock (CTS) on local …
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25 Years of European Merger Control
Affeldt, Pauline - 2020
We study the evolution of EC merger decisions over the first 25 years of common European merger policy. Using a novel … dataset at the level of the relevant antitrust markets and containing all merger cases scrutinized by the Commission over the … definition and the complexity of the merger. Simple, linear probability models as usually applied in the literature overestimate …
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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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Electricity Use as a Real Time Indicator of the Economic Burden of the COVID-19-Related Lockdown : Evidence from Switzerland
Janzen, Benedikt - 2020
We employ hourly electricity load data for Switzerland as a real time indicator of the economic effects of the lockdown following the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Our findings reveal that following the drastic lockdown, overall electricity use decreased by 4 per cent, with a reduction of even 11.3 per...
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Changing Electricity Markets : Quantifying the Price Effects of Greening the Energy Matrix
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022
We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) wholesale electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using machine learning. The agnostic random forest approach that we use is able to reduce in-sample root mean square errors (RMSEs) by around 50% when compared to a standard linear...
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Gone with the Wind? An Empirical Analysis of the Renewable Energy Rent Transfer
Liski, Matti; Vehviläinen, Iivo - 2016
Subsidies to renewable energy are costly and contentious. We estimate the reduction in prices that follows from the subsidized entry of wind power in the Nordic electricity market. A relatively small-scale entry of renewables leads to a large-scale transfer of surplus from the incumbent...
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Green Tradable Certificates versus Feed-in Tariffs in the Promotion of Renewable Energy Shares
Requate, Till - 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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The Prosumers and the Grid
Gautier, Axel; Jacqmin, Julien; Poudou, Jean-Christophe - 2017
Prosumers are households that are both producers and consumers of electricity. A prosumer has a grid-connected decentralized production unit (DPU) and makes two types of exchanges with the grid: energy imports when the local production is insuffcient to match the local consumption and energy...
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