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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...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979689
transferred to the public. This paper assesses whether the new regulation will ultimately be to the benefit of the public. It …
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's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments …We analyze the effects of an incentive based regulatory scheme with revenue caps on the investment behaviors and … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional …
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draft regulation on net neutrality, which aims at limiting the differential treatment of data transmission on the internet … draft regulation for a single European market in telecommunications, which contains provisions for an “Open Internet”. In …
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It has been a policy proposal since long to vertically separate transport and infrastructure in Germany's railway sector. The proposal received new momentum, when selling the transport subsidiaries of Deutsche Bahn AG to the public was discussed in 2008/2009. While vertical separation is...
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This article analyses and compares two methods applied by national regulation authorities (NRAs) to determine mobile …
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Nowadays, merger control predominantly relies upon a strict analysis of the effects from merger and acquisitions on effective competition. However, there is scope for so-called public interest considerations in several European merger control regimes and recently a number of European politicians...
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In diesem Bericht wird ein umfangreicher Datensatz von über sechs Millionen Haushaltsstromtarifen für alle Postleitzahlgebiete Deutschlands analysiert. Die Entwicklung der Einzelhandelsstrompreise zwischen Januar 2007 und August 2014 unterscheidet sich je nach Anbieter und Tarif stark....
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We provide an evaluation of the impact of public subsidy schemes that aimed to support the development of basic broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission (EC). While the EC increasingly recognises the role of...
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