consumer interests: theoretically analyzing the decisions an authority takes on both the unbundling regime and the grid charge … consumer-oriented goals to always implement Ownership Unbundling. For a regulator acting in the interests of the industry or … the government, though, results suggest the authority to be indifferent between Legal and Ownership Unbundling; minor …

Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and … unbundling and third party access regimes on customer prices. Substantially different results are found using dynamic rather than … static analysis. In particular, negative short term effects of ownership unbundling found in static models are approximately …

contrast to other European member states, there is no ex-ante regulation of network access charges. Instead, network access … relies on industrial self-regulation and ex-post control by the Cartel Office. The paper modifies the concept of regulatory …

This paper presents a social cost benefit analysis of ownership unbundling (as compared to legal und functional … unbundling) of the electricity transmission system operators in Germany. The study relies on the Residual Supply Index for its … effect of unbundling on capacity are of crucial importance. Overall, for the base-case, the net weighted discounted social …