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Are Unbundled and Self-supplied Telecommunications Switching Substitutes? An Empirical Study
Beard, T. Randolph; Ford, George - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 12 (2005) 2, pp. 163-181
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent monopoly phone companies to lease elements of their networks to rivals. An important policy question is whether these unbundled elements are substitutes for entry modes that are more facilities-based. In this article, we estimate demand...
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The Development of European Regulatory Agencies : What the EU Should Learn from the American Experience
Geradin, Damien - 2006
The creation of a growing number of agencies at the EU level is one of the most significant developments in the administrative structure of the EU. These agencies play a useful role as they allow the Commission to decentralize a number of scientific, technical, or observatory functions to...
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Personal Taxes and the Fair Rate of Return Doctrine
Palmon, Dan - 2013
In setting the allowable rate of return of public utilities, U.S. regulatory agencies and the courts continue to rely … financing. As a result, regulated utilities are discouraged from competing for external equity funds and are allowed excessive … return on internally generated funds. The first bias is inconsistent with the social objective that public utilities be …
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Incentive Regulation and Utility Benchmarking for Electricity Network Security
Jamasb, Tooraj; Nepal, Rabindra - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
The incentive regulation of costs related to physical and cyber security in electricity networks is an important but relatively unexplored and ambiguous issue. These costs can be part of a cost efficiency benchmarking or alternatively dealt separately. This paper discusses the issues and...
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Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate and Local Air Pollution: Policies in Sweden
Bonilla, Jorge; Coria, Jessica; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2012
In this paper, we explore the synergies and tradeoffs between abatement of global and local pollution. We built a unique dataset of Swedish heat and power plants with detailed boiler-level data 2001-2009 on not only production and inputs but also emissions of CO2 and NOx. Both pollutants are...
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Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing
Ito, Koichiro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Nonlinear pricing and taxation complicate economic decisions by creating multiple marginal prices for the same good. This paper provides a framework to uncover consumers' perceived price of nonlinear price schedules. I exploit price variation at spatial discontinuities in electricity service...
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Essays on Electricity Market Reforms: A Cross-Country Applied Approach
Erdogdu, Erkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
In the last two decades, more than half of the countries in the world have introduced a reform process in their power industries and billions of dollars have been spent on liberalizing electricity markets around the world. This thesis presents a doctoral research concerned with the cross-country...
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The Unbundling Regime for Electricity Utilities in the EU: A Case of Legislative and Regulatory Capture?
Koten, Silvester van; Ortmann, Andreas - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007
referred to as Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs), can increase their profitability through combined ownership of … incomplete (legal) and complete (ownership) unbundling. There is tantalizing anecdotal evidence that VIUs have tried to influence …
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Legally Separated Joint Ownership of Bidder and Auctioneer: Illustrated by the Partial Deregulation of the EU Electricity Markets
Koten, Silvester van - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2007
In the EU electricity industry, many Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) have ownership both of electricity …
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Bidding Behavior when One Bidder and the Auctioneer Are Vertically Integrated Implications for the Partial Deregulation of EU Electricity Markets
Koten, Silvester van - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2006
Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) to have ownership of generating and transmission activities. When electricity generators … have to secure transmission rights in an auction, the VIU, because of its combined ownership of generation and transmission …
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