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Product Market Competition and Upstream Innovation : Theory and Evidence from the US Electricity Market Deregulation
Sanyal, Paroma - 2015
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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Cross-border electricity interconnectors in the EU : the status quo
Brunekreeft, Gert; Meyer, Roland - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797725
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Introducing Competition and Deregulating the British Domestic Energy Markets : A Legal and Economic Discussion
Harker, Michael; Price, Catherine Waddams - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052667
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Third Party Access and Refusal to Deal : How Sector Regulation and Competition Law Meet Each Other
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2010
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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Public Utility and the Low Carbon Future
Boyd, William - 2014
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Utility Regulation in Africa : How Relevant is the British Model?
Wren-Lewis, Liam - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016493
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Nuclear turn : closing down nuclear power plants opens up prospects for the final repository site search
Kendziorski, Mario; Kemfert, Claudia; Präger, Fabian; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 47, pp. 359-366
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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Small Businesses' Satisfaction and Engagement with the British Energy Market : The Role of Energy Brokers
Deller, David - 2020
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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The CMA’s Assessment of Customer Detriment in the UK Retail Energy Market
Littlechild, Stephen C. - 2020
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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Innovation and Environmental Stringency : The Case of Sulfur Dioxide Abatement
de Vries, Frans P.; Withagen, Cees - 2014
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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