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The existence and the use of the essential facilities doctrine was questioned in theory and in practice. Although the doctrine was developed in antitrust, it became a frequently cited notion in the regulation of network utilities. Its relevance is hotly debated during the setup of the new...
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Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce … resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions …-term auctions for transmission capacity are not necessarily preferable to regulatory approved capacity expansion. …
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Competition authorities in foreign jurisdictions have recently adopted or are considering guidelines on applying competition law to intellectual property rights (IPR). A common concern that certain exercises of IPR can restrict competition underlies IPR provisions that would enable competition...
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Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce … resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions …-term auctions for transmission capacity are not necessarily preferable to regulatory approved capacity expansion. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325061
Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce … resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions …-term auctions for transmission capacity are not necessarily preferable to regulatory approved capacity expansion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087412
The aim of this paper is to give deeper insights into the impact of regulatory reforms and privatization on R&D spending of electricity utilities. Building on a panel data set including the biggest European utilities from eight EU-countries over a period from 1985 until 2010, we find a strong...
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cost. The results show that investments in the telecommunications industry are positively dependent on liberalization that …
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This chapter reviews recent theoretical work on the design of regulatory policy, focusing on the complications that arise when regulated suppliers have better information about the regulated industry than do regulators. The discussion begins by characterizing the optimal regulation of a monopoly...
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The question non longer is if more competition should be introduced in the German water and sewerage sector. The issue rather is what kind of competition ought to be implemented. There are mainly three different approaches: Competition in the Market; Competition for the Market and the...
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This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory power when high numbers of variables but only limited...
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