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El Real Decreto 222/2008 estableció un nuevo modelo retributivo para la actividad de la distribución de la energía eléctrica en España. En esta normativa se contempla la utilización de un modelo de red para fijar algunos de los parámetros que intervienen en la fórmula retributiva de cada...
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This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
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monopoly outcome. Within the framework of the "passive regulator" that this logic entails, public regulation cannot alter the …The authors explain why the elementary logic of rate-of-return regulation generates not the competitive outcome but the … monopoly outcome, but can only change the form in which the monopoly rent is captured. The authors also explain why it is …
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A small region has a high cost monopolistic electricity generator. It is connected through a low capacity transmission line with a large, competitive low cost region. Access to the transmission line is auctioned. I show that, if consumers arbitrate on the regional price differences, the...
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Investment regulation constitutes one of the major difficulties in regulating monopolistic activities such as … sharing contracts can be particularly useful. Moreover, menu regulation could encourage distribution firms to provide …
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Motivated by the failure of competition to emerge after the natural gas market in the Czech Republic was liberalized, I explore the impact of natural gas storage ownership and upstream competition on the downstream level. I extend standard Cournot models to understand current and likely future...
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all platforms or a “pure” monopoly with just one platform. Literature has not generally discussed, which benchmark is the …
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We analyze the optimal location choice of a monopolistic firm that operates two platforms on a two-sided market. We show that the optimal platform locations are equivalent to the one-sided benchmark if both sides are either restricted to single- or multi-homing. In the mixed case (one side...
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We study the issue of integrating real and financial decisions in a monopoly firm with risk-averse decision-makers. To …
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monopoly because each duopolist has a smaller market size than the monopolist. But social welfare in the monopoly is lower than …
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