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" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the monopoly "grid". This paper examines the details of reform and … restructuring in the context of the international experience with reform and restructuring in these two sectors, and considers the … role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy in reform, both in the past as an "advocate for competition" within the …
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The aim of this paper is to give deeper insights into the impact of regulatory reforms and privatization on R&D spending of electricity utilities. Building on a panel data set including the biggest European utilities from eight EU-countries over a period from 1985 until 2010, we find a strong...
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What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a...
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In the EU electricity industry, many Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) have ownership both of electricity generators and of transmission, hence VIU-owned or allied generators often are bidders in auctions for VIU-owned transmission. In Van Koten (2006) I show that welfare suffers and the...
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We try to better understand the comparative advantages of structural and behavioral remedies of deregulation in …
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/privatized distributors and suppliers may not be the best model of market deregulation. As a result, Romanian authorities have started to talk …
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The European climate targets until 2050 require an adaptation of the generation portfolio in terms of renewable and fossil based generation. Assumptions on the timeline of the targets and the availability and costs of generation technologies are used in energy system models to optimize the cost...
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The European climate targets until 2050 require an adaptation of the generation portfolio in terms of renewable and fossil based generation. Assumptions on the timeline of the targets and the availability and costs of generation technologies are used in energy system models to optimize the cost...
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Retail electric deregulation has been identified in the literature to have favorable price impacts to businesses and … analysis of the effect of retail deregulation on total electric bills in Ohio. The results identify two main sources of cross …
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