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Monopoly regulation through cost-based revenue caps employing a base year approach
Gräper, Gerrit; Mankat, Fabian - 2024
costs in a so-called base year. Such regulation is employed, among others, to govern electricity distribution operators in …. A connected set of price caps exists so that a hybrid regulation consisting of any element in this set and the cost …
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Natural or Unnatural Monopolies in UK Telecommunications?
Correa, Lisa - 2003
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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Liberalisation of Network Industries : Is the Electricity Sector an Exception to the Rule?
Coppens, François - 2010
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The 'Regulatory Authority Dixit' Defense in European Competition Law Enforcement
Congedo, Dr Pierluigi - 2016
The European Commission (EC) and the European Courts have being reaffirming in the Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica cases that guide-prices established by sector regulators upon electronic communications incumbents cannot per se exclude that conducts with anticompetitive foreclosure effects,...
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Unbundling of electricity transmission system operators in Germany : an experience report
Brunekreeft, Gert; Goto, Mika; Meyer, Roland; Maruyama, … - 2014
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our research mainly relies on in-depth interviews with sector-experts from the German utilities. We will discuss both short-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423531
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Regulatory objectives and the intensity of unbundling in electricity markets
Lindemann, Henrik - 2015
Despite the positive effect electricity grids separated from generation and supply by ownership are expected to have on the level of competition in the non-network activities, several EU member states still adhere to a solely legally unbundled transmission grid. This choice might be induced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492455
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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, explaining the evolution of competitive constraints when consumers are introduced to supplier choice for the first time. In the context of rising real energy prices for consumers, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052667
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Legal Unbundling, Regulation and Pricing : Evidence from Electricity Distribution
Heim, Sven - 2020
Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … and has been implemented in many jurisdictions. The idea of separating the network, as the natural monopoly, from … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850827
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Testing regulatory regimes for power transmission expansion with fluctuating demand and wind generation
Schill, Wolf-Peter; Egerer, Jonas; Rosellón, Juan - 2015
-world applicability of results compared to previous analyses. We show that a combined merchant-regulatory regulation, which draws upon a …
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