The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our …-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the electricity market as well as the impact on costs and security of … supply. Overall, we have two main conclusions. First, the major step in the unbundling process is from "lean legal unbundling …

The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and … Spain. The analysed fields of regulation are the relationship between the State and the rail companies, network access …. The aim of the paper is to give a comparative overview of the rail regulation from a critical point of view, rather than …

network industries like telecommunications, electricity and railways and has sparked off a controversy in the literature. The …This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a …. The insights are applied to the electricity supply industry in Germany. …