impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the U.S. electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups … dominates despite modest efficiency gains, leading to higher consumer prices. Deregulation does not necessarily reduce prices …

Nodal pricing has emerged from a theoretical approach to a practicable and efficient tool for network and congestion … mangement. Experiences from North America and New Zealand have proven nodal pricing to be workable without serious technical … problems. Continental European electricity grids like the German one are still based on a uniform pricing mechanism. This study …

different regulatory settings, consisting of alternative spot market pricing schemes and network tariff designs in a dynamic … context. While a setting with zonal pricing and fixed network tariffs achieves the highest welfare, a deviation of either the … pricing scheme or the network tariff design leads to inefficiencies. However, we show that two inefficiently designed price …

markets and retailers' pricing decisions. We analyze this question in the context of Alberta's competitive retail electricity … facilitating the development of a competitive retail market. However, our econometric analysis of the pricing of unregulated …

Real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity would improve the efficiency of consumption and investment and would lessen the …

pricing' of credit cards that emerge when cardholders face few fees but instead receive discounts, rewards and other … markets over such pricing do not translate over to two-sided networks, of which card networks are a quintessential example …