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organizational structure. Second, we use the US electricity deregulation in the 1990's to test the model. Using patents as a metric … for innovation, we identify two channels through which the effects of deregulation are transmitted to innovation: (a) the … appropriation effect which has decreased innovation by 19.5 percent after deregulation, and (b) the competition effect which has …
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An important goal of the European Commission is the promotion of the internal energy market (here specifically electricity), which requires sufficient and adequate cross-border interconnector capacity. However, cross-border interconnector capacity is scarce and, more importantly, the progress of...
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In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … quesiton of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …
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In this paper, we will analyse further the issue of concurrence between competition and sector rules and the relation between parallel concepts within the two different legal frameworks. We will firstly examine Third Party Access in relation to essential facilities doctrine and refusal of access...
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This article considers whether African utility regulators can draw useful lessons from the British experience over the past thirty years. We focus on three features that are considered key properties of the British regulatory model: price-cap incentive regulation, independent regulatory agencies...
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With the closure of the final six nuclear power plants, the commercial use of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector exported 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or about four percent of...
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Householders' satisfaction and engagement with the retail energy market has generated considerable debate, this paper provides the first academic assessment of the situation for micro and small business (MSB) energy customers. We find that, while energy brokers are central to MSBs switching...
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In 2016, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that “weak customer response” enabled incumbent UK energy retailers to set higher and discriminatory prices to residential customers. The CMA estimated the associated higher prices constituted a customer detriment in the range...
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A weak version of the Porter hypothesis claims that strict environmental policy provides positive innovation incentives, hence triggering improved competitiveness and securing environmental quality. In a comparative way, this paper empirically tests this hypothesis across countries by linking...
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