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Essays on network industries: privatization, regulation, and productivity measurement
Kuhlmann, Andreas - 2007
and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698334
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Powering up developing countries through integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283608
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Option to revoke and regulation of local utilities
Moretto, Michele; Valbonesi, Paola - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608615
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Restructuring Italian Utility Markets: Household Distributional Effects
Valbonesi, Paola; Miniaci, Raffaele; Scarpa, Carlo - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312543
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Capital Structure and Regulation: Does Ownership Matter?
Cambini, Carlo; Bortolotti, Bernardo; Rondi, Laura; … - 2007
We construct a comprehensive panel data of 96 publicly traded European utilities over the period 1994-2005 in order to study the relationship between the capital structure of regulated firms, regulated prices, and investments, and examine if and how this interaction is affected by ownership...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312393
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Netznutzungsentgelte als Wettbewerbshindernis? Diskriminierungsanreize und Regulierung in liberalisierten Strommärkten: Eine spieltheoretische Analyse
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Bier, Christoph - 2006
Konkurrenz im Strommarkt zu behindern? (2) Kann eine kostenorientierte Regulierung der Netznutzungsentgelte mit dem Ziel eines … Liberalisierung der Strommärkte sowie einer kostenorientierten Regulierung der Netznutzungsentgelte. Das Paper zeigt, daß der vertikal … Konkurrent keinen Kostenvorteil aufweist, ist der Anreiz zur Marktabschottung groß. Eine kostenorientierte Regulierung der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296931
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Netznutzungsentgelte als Wettbewerbshindernis? Diskriminierungsanreize und Regulierung in liberalisierten Strommärkten: Eine spieltheoretische Analyse
Schmidtchen, Dieter; Bier, Christoph - 2006
Konkurrenz im Strommarkt zu behindern? (2) Kann eine kostenorientierte Regulierung der Netznutzungsentgelte mit dem Ziel eines … Liberalisierung der Strommärkte sowie einer kostenorientierten Regulierung der Netznutzungsentgelte. Das Paper zeigt, daß der vertikal … Konkurrent keinen Kostenvorteil aufweist, ist der Anreiz zur Marktabschottung groß. Eine kostenorientierte Regulierung der …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296940
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The new institutional economics of antitrust and regulation
Bickenbach, Frank; Kumkar, Lars; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 1999
, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues – the European policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283001
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Network Investment and the Threat of Regulation – Preventing Monopoly Exploitation or Infrastructure Construction?
Blum, Ulrich; Growitsch, Christian; Krap, Niels - 2006
the same time, we model an incumbent's decision problem under a threat of regulation in a game-theoretical context. The … decision whether to invest or not depends on the probability of regulation and its assumed impact on investment returns … best set. This price is below a non-regulated profit maximising price, since the incumbent tries to circumvent regulation …
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Regulating national firms in a common market
Biancini, Sara - 2008
We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264297