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Competition Law and Sector Specific Rules in European Energy Sector : A Comparison to Trinko, Recent Commission’s Antitrust Decisions and a Look to the Future
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014
This paper aims at highlighting the Commission's approach towards the relation between sector specific regulation and general competition law, especially concerning energy markets and the road to Internal Market objective.We firstly present Trinko case, in order to focus on two crucial and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069619
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European Energy Market After Deregulation : A Process of Limited Restructuring and the Role of European Competition Law
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014
The financial organisations engaged in the electricity and natural gas markets were forced to change, due to the deregulation process. The presence of new players in the markets and changes in demand obliged the existing companies to react. This reaction was not limited to an aggressive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069698
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European Competition Law & Control of Energy Market Restructuring
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014
This paper examines the controlling role of European competition law in the energy market restructuring in EU after the gradual liberalisation process of previous years and defines the application of European competition law to this framework of restructuring. The particular focus of this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069699
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Liberalizing the Gas Industry : Take‐Or‐Pay Contracts, Retail Competition and Wholesale Trade
Polo, Michele - 2015
clauses limit the incentives to face-to-face competition and determine segmentation and monopoly pricing even when entry of … new competitors occurs. The development of wholesale trade, instead, may induce generalized entry and retail competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013036877
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Ownership Unbundling in EU & Legal Problems
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2010
In this paper we will examine the issue of ownership unbundling and forced divestiture remedies imposed in a series of recent competition law cases of the energy market - examined in other papers - in relation to the possible existence of a series of legal obstacles. These energy market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187735
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Russian Gas Imports in Europe : How Does Gazprom Reliability Change the Game?
Morbee, Joris - 2009
Europe's dependence on Russian gas imports has been the subject of increasing political concern after gas conflicts between Russia and Ukraine in 2006 and 2009. This paper assesses the potential impact of Russian unreliability on the European gas market, and how it affects European gas import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012720307
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The gas chain : influence of its specificities on the liberalisation process
Swartenbroekx, Carine - 2007
Like other network industries, the European gas supply industry has been liberalised, along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of essential transmission infrastructure. The aim of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610385
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Perspectives of the European Natural Gas Markets Until 2025
Holz, Franziska; von Hirschhausen, Christian; Kemfert, … - 2009
We apply the EMF 23 study design to simulate the effects of the reference case and the scenarios to European natural gas supplies to 2025. We use GASMOD, a strategic several-layer model of European gas supply, consisting of upstream natural gas producers, traders in each consuming European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206833
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Does one more or one less mobile operator affect prices? : a comprehensive ex-post evaluation of entries and mergers in European mobile telecommunication markets
Csorba, Gergely; Pápai, Zoltán - 2015
different structural changes between countries to separate the respective effects. Our results show that the effect of entry … lead to misleading conclusions. We find no robust evidence that entry has a price-decreasing effect on markets with … originally 2 operators. However, the entry of a 4th operator does have a price-decreasing effect, but with different dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317118