This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a … network industries like telecommunications, electricity and railways and has sparked off a controversy in the literature. The …. The insights are applied to the electricity supply industry in Germany. …

of market power may lead to increased markups. We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the … impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the U.S. electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups …

The German electricity market has recovered well from the 2022 energy crisis. Policymakers should now redirect the … focus of energy policy to further expanding renewable energy sources. The year 2023 showed that the German electricity … climate policy to cover 80 percent of electricity consumption with renewable energy sources, as the German Renewable Energy …

This paper investigates whether European electricity market reforms have induced any changes in firm efficiency either … productivity effects of changing industry structure, ownership structure and regulation with respect to barriers to entry and … sluggish productivity improvements of European electricity firms due to reforms implemented in the last decade. In particular …

Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of the conflicts between regulators, users …

This paper examines how regulatory interventions can affect the market risk of electricity utilities and telecom … telecommunications' regulatory intervention are negligible, but the impact of the electricity's regulatory measure is significant, long …

The spot price of electricity is highly skewed and heavy-tailed, as a result of the interaction of different variables … variables in an electricity market, reducing the limitations that normality and parametric density functions impose. The … likelihood criterion. The study case is the Colombian electricity market, where the SNP distribution outperforms the normal …

In this paper, I estimate the price elasticity of residential electricity demand using household-level panel data for … different tier cut-offs. Based on these results, I estimate the price elasticity of electricity demand to be around -0.09. I … also predict the associated changes in electricity consumption, CO2 emissions, and revenues if similar IBR policies are …

critical peak pricing intervention reduces electricity consumption by 14%. Using unique high frequency appliance-level data, we …