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Electricity market operation : transitioning from a free market to a single buyer structure
Daglish, Toby; Bragança, Gabriel Godofredo Fiuza de; … - 2016
We examine electricity market reform in Brazil: from the 1990s till 2004 the largely hydro-powered market cleared using a market mechanism, and in March 2004 reformed to a single buyer structure. We model monthly log price differences using a two-state Markov Switching model, allowing water...
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The performance effects of European demergers
Kirchmaier, Thomas (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001818599
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The more the merrier? : on the optimality of market size restrictions
Negenborn, Colin von - 2019 - This draft: September 10, 2019
This paper provides a novel rationale for the regulation of market size when heterogeneous firms compete. A regulator …
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News media bargaining codes
Sandrini, Luca; Somogy, Robert - 2024
We build a model of the news market where advertisers allocate their ads between a social media platform and a news website. Our objective is to evaluate policy interventions aimed at fostering news creation by transferring revenues from social media to news websites already introduced in...
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Net neutrality regulation : much ado about nothing?
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2019
The economics literature on Net Neutrality (NN) has been largely critical of NN regulation on the basis of theoretical … violations. In contrast, the current paper argues that NN regulation is largely ineffective, in particular, when it comes to the … price rule. NN regulation is effective only in preventing the blocking of specific content and in preventing the favoring of …
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Evaluating a decade of mobile termination rate regulation
Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2014
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Congestion management games in electricity markets
Ehrhart, Karl-Martin; Eicke, Anselm; Hirth, Lion; … - 2022
This paper proposes a game-theoretic model to analyze the strategic behavior of inc-dec gaming in market-based congestion management (redispatch). We extend existing models by considering incomplete information about competitors’ costs and a finite set of providers. We find that these...
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Regulatory compliance with limited enforceability : evidence from privacy policies
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Krämer, Julia; Gambato, Jacopo - 2024
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to …
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Tradable SO 2 -permits in the European Union : a practicable scheme for public utilities
Brockmann, Karl Ludwig; Koschel, Henrike; Schmidt, … - 1998
In this paper, a practicable scheme of SO2-emission permits for European power producers is developed. Background is the second UN-ECE Sulphur Protocol from 1994 (Protocol of Oslo). After discussing some theoretical models of spatially differentiated permit schemes, evaluating the U.S. Acid Rain...
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The impact of carbon prices on renewable energy support
Abrell, Jan; Kosch, Mirjam - 2021
This paper examines how optimal renewable energy (RE) support (RES) policies need to be adjusted to account for carbon prices. We show theoretically and empirically that changing carbon prices requires adjusting RE production subsidies due to two different motives: First, RE premiums need to be...
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