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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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an FDR market featuring either (i) both DSO and aggregators; or (ii) a monopoly aggregator also supplying generation to … the real-time market. The paper also characterizes a regulation that implements the efficient outcome. …
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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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's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional … specific heterogeneity. It should further include all institutional aspects of incentive regulation to design incentives that …
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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 …
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requirements, (international) benchmarking is not an adequate tool for the regulation of transmission system operators (TSO … high. The paper discusses options to reduce the weight of benchmarking in TSO regulation and options that do not rely on …
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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...
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Accounting for network operators' heterogeneity is of crucial importance for regulators. In contrast to observed heterogeneity, the consideration of unobserved differences is far more challenging. Most estimation models try to account for unobserved factors that impact the network operators'...
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incentive regulation and efficiency benchmarking in electricity distribution industries and provides valuable insights for …
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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...
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