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Unbundling, regulation and pricing: Evidence from electricity distribution
Heim, Sven; Krieger, Bastian; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2018
Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … effects is still lacking. In this paper we study the effect of legal unbundling on grid charges in the German electricity … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933949
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Static vs. dynamic impacts of unbundling: Electricity markets in South America
Schober, Dominik - 2013
Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and … political discussions. Focusing on the South American electricity sector, I contrast static and dynamic impacts of ownership … unbundling and third party access regimes on customer prices. Substantially different results are found using dynamic rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312874
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Static vs. dynamic impacts of unbundling: Electricity markets in South America
Schober, Dominik - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and … political discussions. Focusing on the South American electricity sector, I contrast static and dynamic impacts of ownership … unbundling and third party access regimes on customer prices. Substantially different results are found using dynamic rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957589
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Electricity market integration and the impact of unilateral policy reforms
Grossi, Luigi; Heim, Sven; Hüschelrath, Kai; Waterson, … - 2015
The harmonization and integration of separate national energy markets to an interconnected internal European market is a top priority of the European Commission. However, as energy policy largely remains subject to national sovereignty, a higher degree of integration can cause unilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372115
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Incentive regulation: Evidence from German electricity networks
Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís - 2019
theoretically, and estimate empirically, that German electricity distribution system operators (DSOs) pile up more costs in the year … used to determine future prices when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966984
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Competition in the German interurban bus industry: A snapshot two years after liberalization
Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015
We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In addition to a brief characterization of the liberalization process and several general market developments, we provide a detailed analysis of selected market characteristics such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314568
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Patterns of entry and exit in the deregulated German interurban bus industry
Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2017
We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its deregulation in January 2013. Using a comprehensive data set of all firm and route entries and exits, we find that the industry grew much quicker than originally expected - with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739421
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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition: Evidence from German electricity submarkets
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - 2011
In German electricity submarkets for residential customers standard contracts offered by former monopolists are the … retail electricity submarkets using simultaneous equation approach and can find support for our hypothesis. In particular for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307842
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Screening instruments for monitoring market power in wholesale electricity markets: Lessons from applications in Germany
Bataille, Marc; Steinmetz, Alexander; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2014
hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless …, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and their cause and effect in wholesale electricity markets are scarce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392328
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Screening instruments for monitoring market power in wholesale electricity markets: Lessons from applications in Germany
Bataille, Marc; Steinmetz, Alexander; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless …, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and their cause and effect in wholesale electricity markets are scarce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957651