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Forecasting day-ahead electricity prices : utilizing hourly prices
Raviv, Eran; Bouwman, Kees E.; Dijk, Dick van - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765836
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Expected utility and catastrophic risk
Ikefuji, Masako; Laeven, Roger; Magnus, Jan R.; Muris, Chris - 2014
An expected utility based cost-benefit analysis is in general fragile to its distributional assumptions. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions on the utility function of the expected utility model to avoid this. The conditions ensure that expected (marginal) utility remains finite also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412466
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Pivotal suppliers and market power in experimental supply function competition
Brandts, Jordi; Reynolds, Stanley S.; Schram, Arthur - 2011
In the process of regulatory reform in the electric power industry, the mitigation of market power is one of the basic problems regulators have to deal with. We use experimental data to study the sources of market power with supply function competition, akin to the competition in wholesale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383176
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Single-till versus dual-till regulation of airports
Czerny, Achim Ingo; Zhang, Anmin - 2015
are privately owned and experience little or no ex-ante regulation of airport charges. On the other hand, airports … activities into the regulation of airport infrastructure charges? This question is addressed in this paper. We discuss basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510068
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Corporate social responsibility by joint agreement
Schinkel, Maarten-Pieter; Treuren, Leonard - 2021
requiring a higher CSR level by regulation while preserving competition always gives higher within-market welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591411
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The transaction costs perspective on costs and benefits of government regulation
Butter, Frank A. G. den; Graaf, Marc de; Nijsen, André F. - 2009
regulation by taking all transaction costs into account which stem from the principal/agent relationship between regulatory … regulated entities – part of these costs can be regarded as the administrative burden of regulation for the private sector – but … society due to e.g. miscommunication on the aims of regulation, and are, of course, hard to quantify. A cost calculation using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377583
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Deregulation in retailing : the Dutch experience
Carree, Martin Anthony; Nijkamp, Joyce - 1999
Institutional barriers to entry were removed to a considerable extent in 1996 in the Dutch retail sector. Three years before that the regulator decided to not take legal actions anymore against entrants violating institutional requirements. In the current analysis we investigate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302129
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Competition and entry in banking : implications for stability and capital regulation
Boot, Arnoud W. A.; Marinč, Matej - 2006
We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348715
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The trade-off between efficiency, effectiveness, and social feasiblity [feasibility] of regulating road transport externalities
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000902272
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Regulation of road-accident externalities when insurance companies have market power
Dementyeva, Maria; Koster, Paul R.; Verhoef, Erik T. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191430