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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 …
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television regulation in light of these developments. It surveys the dismal empirical record on the effects of price regulation …
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The German energy industries will be subjected to regulation of network access enforced by a sector-specific regulator … resulted in a margin squeeze. The government currently discusses whether to use rate-of-return or incentive regulation, to …
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Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened. Boosting economic growth requires a new generation...
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The transformation of world?s main stock markets into enterprises acting in a competitive environment is in progress and its consequences are not all known. Three strategies are competing with each other: vertical integration of exchange and CSD; horizontal growth of the market share to an...
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Product market regulation in the non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries: measurement and highlights This paper … describes a new set of indicators that measure differences in the regulation of non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries over … indicators and the patterns of product market regulation and regulatory reform that emerge from the analysis. The robustness of …
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In recent years, the European telecommunications market has witnessed major developments, with rapid expansion in access to telecommunications networks and a surge in the number of available services and applications. While many factors have contributed to the transformation of the...
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In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets, explaining the evolution of competitive constraints when consumers are introduced to supplier choice for the first time. In the context of rising real energy prices for consumers, and...
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EU has to attain the strategic objectives for 2020: 20% of energy from renewable sources, cutting the emissions of greenhouse gases by 20% and diminishing the dependence on imported fuels, that is why in the last years European Commission has decided that MS should increase the flexibility of...
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The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...
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