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Regulation and third party discrimination in vertically related markets : the case of German electricity

Brunekreeft, Gert - 2001 - Revised Version - March 2001

This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a …

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A welfare analysis of the electricity transmission regulatory regime in Germany

Kemfert, Claudia; Kunz, Friedrich; Rosellón, Juan - 2015

We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with both cost-plus and revenue-cap regulations. After reviewing international experiences on transmission investment, we first make a qualitative assessment of the overall German...

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Coordinating cross-country congestion management

Kunz, Friedrich; Zerrahn, Alexander - 2016

We employ a detailed two-stage model to simulate the operation of the Central Eastern European electricity market and network. Implementing different cases of coordination in congestion management between national transmission system operators, numerical results show the beneficial impact of...

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Regulatorische Entbündelung in Netzindustrien

Knieps, Günter - 2008

In diesem Aufsatz wird ein netzökonomisch fundiertes Konzept zur Entbünde-lung entwickelt, mit dem Ziel den verbleibenden Regulierungsbedarf in den geöffneten Netzsektoren aufzuzeigen. Dreh- und Angelpunkt der Entbündelung als regulatorisches Konzept ist die Schaffung einer transparenten...

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Sektorspezifische Ex-ante-Regulierung der deutschen Stromwirtschaft?

Brunekreeft, Gert; Keller, Katja - 2001

Despite monopolistic networks and in contrast to all other EUmember states, the electricity supply industry in Germany is not ex ante regulated. Control of the sector is left to the cartel agency, which can apply the essential- facilities doctrine as an ex-post instrument. This paper analyses...

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Regulation and investment incentives in electricity distribution : an empirical assessment

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015

's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional … specific heterogeneity. It should further include all institutional aspects of incentive regulation to design incentives that …

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FTR allocations to ease transition to nodal pricing : an application to the German power system

Kunz, Friedrich; Neuhoff, Karsten; Rosellón, Juan - 2014

A shift from zonal pricing to smaller zones and nodal pricing improves efficiency and security of system operation. Resulting price changes do however also shift profits and surplus between and across generation and load. As individual actorscan lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how...

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Regulatory unbundling in telecommunications

Knieps, Günter - 2011

market power on the remaining unbundling regulation is analyzed. Finally, the phasing-out potentials of unbundling regulation … provides particularly interesting insights for studying regulatory unbundling. Based on the theory of monopolistic bottle …-necks the fallacies of overregulation by undue unbundling obligations are indicated. Neither the promotion of infrastructure …

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Two price zones for the German electricity market : market implications and distributional effects

Egerer, Jonas; Weibezahn, Jens; Hermann, Hauke - 2015

We discuss the implications of two price zones, i.e. one northern and southern bidding area, on the German electricity market. In the northern zone, continuous capacity additions with low variable costs cause large regional supply surpluses in the market dispatch while conventional capacity...

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Market power and heterogeneous pass-through in German electricity retail

Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - 2016

We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...

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