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Since the late 90s,, European industries of electricity and gas have been subject to a process of concentration at both …
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Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce …
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Russian natural gas is delivered to Western Europe by pipelines, running throughUkraine, Poland and other transit …
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We extend the theory of monopoly regulation under imperfect information to the case of customer, rather than investor, ownership. The firm's manager can exert two types of effort - a contractible effort to reduce costs, and a non-contractible effort to increase quality. The former decreases...
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by the utilities after two decades of reforms? We focus on electricity, gas, water, telephone in the EU 15 Member States …
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by the utilities after two decades of reforms? We focus on electricity, gas, water, telephone in the EU 15 Member States …
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This paper develops a simple model for examining the gas-release programs as the unique tool to improve the performance … of imperfectly competitive natural gas markets. We study the "artificial" duopoly effect created by first the incumbent … and then by a regulator who introduces a gas-release program under both a partial and a global budget-balance constraint …
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that of the coal-to-gas fuel switching. We also compute biomass and CO2 breakeven prices for co-firing. Results indicate …
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Public debate about energy relations between the EU and Russia is distorted. These distortions present considerable obstacles to the development of true partnership. At the core of the conflict is a struggle for resource rents between energy producing, energy consuming and transit...
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We propose a model of the European gas market where the risk that Russian deliveries are interrupted is endogenized …
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