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" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the monopoly "grid". This paper examines the details of reform and … restructuring in the context of the international experience with reform and restructuring in these two sectors, and considers the … role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy in reform, both in the past as an "advocate for competition" within the …
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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...
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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...
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In the EU electricity industry, many Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) have ownership both of electricity generators and of transmission, hence VIU-owned or allied generators often are bidders in auctions for VIU-owned transmission. In Van Koten (2006) I show that welfare suffers and the...
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We try to better understand the comparative advantages of structural and behavioral remedies of deregulation in …
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/privatized distributors and suppliers may not be the best model of market deregulation. As a result, Romanian authorities have started to talk …
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Retail electric deregulation has been identified in the literature to have favorable price impacts to businesses and … analysis of the effect of retail deregulation on total electric bills in Ohio. The results identify two main sources of cross …
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This paper addresses the issue of investment in electricity generation in the context of a liberalised market. We use the main results derived from a theoretical model where firms invest strategically to simulate the Spanish electricity system with real-world data. Our results indicate that,...
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This paper is a law and economics analysis about the effects of the recent decision to exempt Mexico's energy regulator from a regulatory impact analysis. This occured in spite of receiving an opinion from the competition authority about competition effects of changing the rules of the game for...
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