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In this paper we will examine the issue of ownership unbundling and forced divestiture remedies imposed in a series of recent competition law cases of the energy market - examined in other papers - in relation to the possible existence of a series of legal obstacles. These energy market...
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The determinants of incentive regulation are an important issue in economics. More powerful rules relax allocative distortions at the cost of lower rent extraction. Hence, they should be found where the reformer is more concerned with stimulating investments by granting higher expected profits,...
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The feed-in tariff regulation is the wider spread promotion scheme used to encourage the take-up and development of generation from renewable energy sources in the EU, and the costs of resources devoted to this promotion are usually borne by final consumers. Two components of the electricity...
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The choice of whether to regulate firms or to allow them to compete is key. If the demand is sufficiently inelastic, competition entails narrower allocative inefficiencies but, also, smaller expected profits and, thus, weaker incentives to invest in cost reduction. Hence, deregulation should be...
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Although the allocative efficiency benefits of competition are a tenet of microeconomic theory, the relation between competition and technical efficiency is less well understood. Neoclassical models of profit-maximization subsume static cost-minimizing behavior regardless of market...
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This paper investigates whether European electricity market reforms have induced any changes in firm efficiency either through productive, allocative or dynamic efficiency improvements. In particular, this ex-post analysis looks closely at productivity effects of changing industry structure,...
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This paper presents an ex-post empirical analysis of the impact of European electricity market reforms on markups of firms. The working hypothesis is that further economic integration would bring competition into electricity markets reflected by lower markups of electricity firms. The results...
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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This paper focuses on transmission congestion issues that are currently experienced in the electricity market of the Great Britain. It analyses the nature of incentives and behavior of generators arising in presence of persistent congestion patterns due to constraint management approach employed...
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This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...
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