Die Angleichung der regionalen Strompreisunterschiede ist ein erklärtes raumordnungspolitisches Ziel, weil der technische Fortschritt in erheblichem Maße vom Strom abhängig ist und Strom deshalb als ein Teil der "Grundausstattung eines Raumes" gilt. Besonders gravierend sind die regionalen...

This paper investigates the impacts of the eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004 and the liberalisation of European electricity markets on Germanys electricity exchange with neighbouring countries and on electricity prices. Thus, electricity imports from Czech Republic have increased...

Reviewing the development of network access charges in the German electricity market since 2002 reveals significant variation. While some firms continually increased or decreased their access charges, a variety of firms exhibited discontinuous behavior with price changes in both directions. From...

We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...