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Vertical Structure and the Risk of Rent Extraction in the Electricity Industry
Boom, Anette; Buehler, Stefan - 2018
This paper studies how competition and vertical structure jointly determine generating capacities, retail prices, and welfare in the electricity industry. Analyzing a model in which demand is uncertain and retailers must commit to retail prices before they buy electricity in the wholesale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142389
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Emission taxes, feed-in subsidies and the investment in a clean technology by a polluting monopoly
García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2019
The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the … calculated solving a two-stage policy game between the regulator and the monopoly with the regulator acting as the leader of the … output but does not affect the total output. On the other hand, the subsidy leads to the monopoly to reduce the dirty output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012028355
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Restructuring Electricity Markets when Demand is Uncertain: Effects on Capacity Investments, Prices and Welfare
Buehler, Stefan; Boom, Anette - 2006
demand is uncer- tain. We study the following market configurations: (i) integrated monopoly, (ii) integrated duopoly with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142329
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Real-time Pricing in Power Markets: Who Gains?
Boom, Anette; Schwenen, Sebastian - 2013
We examine welfare e ffects of real-time pricing in electricity markets. Before stochastic energy demand is known, competitive retailers contract with final consumers who exogenously do not have real-time meters. After demand is realized, two electricity generators compete in a uniform price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142375
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Restructuring the Electricity Industry: Vertical Structure and the Risk of Rent Extraction
Boom, Anette; Buehler, Stefan - 2014
industry. Allowing for uncertain demand, we compare three market configurations: (i) integrated monopoly, (ii) integrated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142377
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Marketing via friends : strategic diffusion of information in social networks with homophily
Čugaj, Roman N. - 2010
networks ; Random graphs ; Monopoly ; Pricing strategy ; Product design ; Marketing ; Advertisement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008737098
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Vertical differentiation and collusion : cannibalization or proliferation?
Gabszewicz, Jean Jaskold; Marini, Marco A.; Tarola, Ornella - 2016
In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451580
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Collusive agreements in vertically differentiated markets
Marini, Marco A. - 2017
This paper introduces a number of game-theoretic tools to model collusive agreements among firms in vertically differentiated markets. I firstly review some classical literature on collusion between two firms producing goods of exogenous different qualities. I then extend the analysis to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011660599
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On capturing oil rents with a national excise tax revisited
Rubio, Santiago J. - 2004
shown that the importing countries cannot use a tariff to capture monopoly rents if they are constrained to use open …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606959
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The strategic use of abatement by a polluting monopoly
Martín Herrán, Guiomar; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2016
, abatement effort made by the monopoly and social welfare comparing two alternative policy games. The first game assumes that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547525