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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 …
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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 …
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Real-time pricing (RTP) of electricity would improve the efficiency of consumption and investment and would lessen the …
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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 …
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This paper compares the results of different pricing systems in the German electricity sector. In particular,we compare … a competitive nodal pricing approach to a cost minimization scenario under a uniform price. The model also simulates the … that the nodal pricing regime is more efficient than uniform pricing and that offshore wind input leads to a significant …
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In this paper, we apply the theory of nodal pricing to a particularly urgent issue of energy and environmental … economics: the integration of wind power in electricity systems. We use a nodal pricing model to analyze the impact of German …
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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 …
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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 …
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that market should exceed the Ramsey price because the rival sells too little. This price will be the target if pricing in …
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