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Competition in public utility sectors has been encouraged in recent years throughout Europe. In this paper we try and analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods. The first step is to introduce a sensible measure of affordability of...
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Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions. In our model the fraction of rights issued in the...
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Relying on a general equilibrium model of Argentina’s economy calibrated for 1993 and internalizing all productivity and scale gains achieved up to 1999, this paper isolates the distributional effects of utilities reform from the impact of other reforms taking place in the country during the...
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The liberalisation of the Hungarian electricity and natural gas markets has been completed in 2009. The liberalisation of the electricity market resulted in different competitive positions in the production, the wholesale and the retail trade. The high level of market concentration survived in...
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Der Landtag in Nordrhein-Westfalen hat jüngst beschlossen, bei der kommunalen Wirtschaftstätigkeit den privaten vor staatlichen Unternehmen Vorrang zu geben. Dies geht in die gleiche Richtung wie die Vorgaben der EU-Kommission zur Beihilfenkontrolle. Wie lässt sich staatliche...
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the utility with an appropriate level of return. The regulation timing consists of an endogenous regulatory lag where the … regulation has a fixed-price nature followed by a period of rate-of-return regulation in which the firm is motivated to adjust …
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Seit 1998 sind wettbewerblich organisierte Energiemärkte Wirklichkeit geworden. Vor allem die Initiativen der Europäischen Union haben dazu geführt, daß die alten Monopolstrukturen aufgelöst worden sind und sich die Anbieter auf Strom- und in Zukunft auch auf Gasmärkten der Konkurrenz...
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