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Strategic interaction vs. regulatory compliance among regulated utilities: The Swedish water sector
Lundin, Erik - 2013
This study provides the first empirical test of strategic interactions in the pricing decisions of regulated utilities …. Since publicly owned water utilities in Sweden are governed by a cost-of-service regulation, prices in neighboring … neighboring utilities' prices as benchmarks for costs or as behaviorally based reference prices, utilities will face the risk of …
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Productive efficiency and ownership when market restructuring affects production technologies
Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria; Rechlitz, Julia - 2017
public and private utilities' efficiency …
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Innovationen im Energiebereich: Unternehmen forschen wenig selbst, investieren aber verstärkt in Klimaschutz und Digitalisierung
Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Kemfert, Claudia; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 86 (2019) 33, pp. 563-572
Energiewende, Klimaschutz und Digitalisierung führen zu einem hohen Innovationsdruck für Unternehmen der Energie-, Wasser- und Entsorgungswirtschaft. Insbesondere der weitreichende Umbau der Energiewirtschaft erfordert neue Technologien, innovative Geschäftsmodelle und digitale Lösungen. Der...
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Climate Policy, Stranded Assets, and Investors' Expectations
Sen, Suphi; von Schickfus, Marie-Theres - 2019
valuation of energy utilities. We find that investors take stranded asset risk into consideration, but that they also expect a …
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How Does Climate Change Affect the Transition of Power Systems: The Case of Germany
Golub, Alexander; Govorukha, Kristina; Mayer, Philip; … - 2020
The effects of extreme weather events, such as heat waves and droughts, are taken into account in both global and European policies. Accordingly, the protection of critical infrastructures and in particular, the resilience of the energy sector was the subject of intense research. There are...
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The Performance of Consumers' Cooperatives in America
Pencavel, John - 2020
A series of observations on various types of cooperatives is constructed from intermittent surveys between 1920 and 1950 and, where possible, these are extended to recent years. These observations allow several questions to be taken up: how well have organizations that resemble consumers'...
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Políticas regulatorias aplicadas a sectores de infraestructura en Argentina
Ferro, Gustavo; Castellano, Andrea; Sardi, Celeste Chaz - 2020
We study the recent evolution of the utilities services and regulation in Argentina. We focus, after a global approach …
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Welfare-Maximising Investors? – Utility Firm Performance with Heterogeneous Quality Preferences and Endogenous Ownership
Meade, Richard; Soderberg, Magnus - 2017
utilities, and find direct support using data from Electricity Distribution Businesses in New Zealand. To reflect ownership … suggest that performance comparisons of customer- and investor-owned utilities should account for ownership endogeneity. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624277
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Human capital and education policy: Evidence from survey data
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2021
Elisabeth Grewenig prepared this study while she was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2021 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of five distinct empirical essays that...
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Avaliando a qualidade dos serviços de distribuição de energia elétrica no Brasil
De Mendonça, Mário Jorge Cardoso; Pereira Júnior, … - 2022
observed that actions of the utilities managed to keep the FEC below the regulatory goal, while the DEC exceeded the limit … our methodology are compatible with the limits defined by ANEEL and are perfectly feasible to be exceeded by the utilities. …
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