This paper addresses the problem of a government trying to maximize welfare through use of rules of origin regulations when there is conflict among various domestic interests. Numerical computations using this model showed that the optimal rule of origin was very sensitive to the technical...

This paper considers the regulation of pricing of liquid petroleum gas in Mexico. We construct a model which incorporates all information essential to the pricing question, and derive relationships which should hold between prices in Mexico and prices in world markets. Prices in Mexico can be...

We examine profit-maximizing pricing under a stylized version of the price-cap plan used by the Mexican Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) to regulate transportation and distribution in the natural gas industry. When average revenue in each period is calculated as the ratio of total revenue to...

Introducción. El modelo desarrollado en este trabajo tiene por objeto analizar los efectos de las "reglas de origen", esto es, de los criterios usados para identificar el país de procedencia de los bienes del comercio internacional. Estas reglas son empleadas con múltiples propósitos: para...

The Comisión Reguladora de Energía of Mexico has implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican natural gas price to the Texas natural gas price. This paper shows that in an open economy where agents can chose between gas and alternative fuels, and where the density function describing the...

This paper addresses the timing of optimal investment in LPG pipelines when the goal is to maximize consumer surplus less private cost and social of transporting LPG. The loss of consumer surplus is small. The important elements are the private cost of transporting LPG and the congestion created...

We present a hybrid mechanism application for the electrical system network expansion in Mexico, United States and Canada. The application is based on redefining the transmission output in terms of “point-to-point” transactions or financial transmission rights (FTR); rebalancing the fixed...