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The impact of the regulatory reform process on R&D investment of European electricity utilities : conference paper
Schmitt, Stephan; Kucsera, Denes - 2013 - This version: 25.10.2012
The aim of this paper is to give deeper insights into the impact of regulatory reforms and privatization on R&D spending of electricity utilities. Building on a panel data set including the biggest European utilities from eight EU-countries over a period from 1985 until 2010, we find a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337284
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Network unbundling and flawed coordination : lessons from electricity and railways
Brunekreeft, Gert - 2014
What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423547
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Product Market Competition and Upstream Innovation : Theory and Evidence from the US Electricity Market Deregulation
Sanyal, Paroma - 2015
organizational structure. Second, we use the US electricity deregulation in the 1990's to test the model. Using patents as a metric … for innovation, we identify two channels through which the effects of deregulation are transmitted to innovation: (a) the … appropriation effect which has decreased innovation by 19.5 percent after deregulation, and (b) the competition effect which has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749984
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Introducing Competition and Deregulating the British Domestic Energy Markets : A Legal and Economic Discussion
Harker, Michael; Price, Catherine Waddams - 2014
In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … quesiton of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052667
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Does Competition Reduce Costs? Assessing the Impact of Regulatory Restructuring on U.S. Electric Generation Efficiency
Markiewicz, Kira; Rose, Nancy L.; Wolfram, Catherine D. - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028681
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Competition and cooperation in a PFF game theoretic model of electrical energy trade
Csercsik, Dávid - 2013
A cooperative game theoretic framework is introduced to study the behavior of cooperating and competing electrical energy providers considering price-preference rational consumers. We analyze the interactions of generators in an idealized environment described by a DC load flow model where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009719691
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Capacity mechanisms and effects on market structure
Elberg, Christina; Kranz, Sebastian - 2014
Liberalized electricity markets are characterized by fluctuating priceinelastic demand of non-storable electricity, often defined by a substantial market share held by one or few incumbent firms. These characteristics have led to a controversial discussion concerning the need for and the design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010253387
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Consumer Preference Not to Choose : Methodological and Policy Implications
Brennan, Tim - 2005
Residential consumers remain reluctant to choose new electricity suppliers. Even the most successful jurisdictions, four U.S. states and other countries, have had to adopt extensive consumer education procedures that serve largely to confirm that choosing electricity suppliers is daunting....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012735908
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A Profit-Maximizing Approach for Transmission Expansion Planning Using a Revenue-Cap Incentive Mechanism
Hesamzadeh, Mohammad Reza - 2018
This paper proposes an incentive mechanism for transmission expansion planning. The mechanism is a bilevel program. The upper level is a profit-maximizing transmission company (Transco) which expands its transmission system while endogenously predicts and influences the generation investment....
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Energy Competition : From Commodity to Boutique & Back
Coleman, James W. - 2020
Energy products such as power, gas, and oil have long been the world's premier commodities. Consumers demand that power and fuel are available when they want it and they prefer to pay less for it. Few know or care where their fuel or power comes from. So for years energy companies believed that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851952