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This paper examines the effects of various price-cap rules on peakload pricing. The issue recently gains practical importance in regulated network industries. The formal approach reveals that efficiency properties of various price-cap rules are, notwithstanding some problems, fairly good. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151392
This paper examines the effects of various price-cap rules on peakload pricing. The issue recently gains practical importance in regulated network industries. The formal approach reveals that efficiency properties of various price-cap rules are, notwithstanding some problems, fairly good. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305101
This paper examines the effects of various price-cap rules on peakload pricing. The issue recently gains practical importance in regulated network industries. The formal approach reveals that efficiency properties of various price-cap rules are, notwithstanding some problems, fairly good. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490030
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our research mainly relies on in-depth interviews with sector-experts from the German utilities. We will discuss both short-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the...
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coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …
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requirements, (international) benchmarking is not an adequate tool for the regulation of transmission system operators (TSO … high. The paper discusses options to reduce the weight of benchmarking in TSO regulation and options that do not rely on …
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policy debate on interconnector expansion and studies two particular points. First, the effects of network regulation on the …
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The factor X in the RPI-X regulation aims to adjust price or revenue allowances to changes in total factor productivity …
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This paper contributes a theoretical analysis of the effects of different types of regulation on the timing of monopoly … base, we distinguish between price-based regulation and cost-based regulation. Under cost-based regulation, investment … triggers a change of regulated prices, whereas, under price-based regulation, investment does not affect them. To motivate …
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This paper shows with a formal model that under monopoly regulation, OPEX-risk can be a source for a CAPEX-bias. If …-OPEX-CAPEX- share (FOCS) which is a variation of TOTEX-regulation and second, OPEX-mark-up. FOCS internalizes the CAPEX-bias and can be …
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