-discriminatory access to data and a coherent and consistent view of the European wholesale electricity market, it does not seem advisable to … go quite so far with respect to immediacy and detail as intended by the new regulations. -- electricity ; market …The European Commission is introducing new regulations on submission and publication of data in electricity markets …

areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the … experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local … telephony and the electricity sector. Part of the explanation lies in an underestimate of the coordination problems, resulting …

-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the electricity market as well as the impact on costs and security of … unbundling in terms of increased competition do not come for free: unbundling is costly and it is important to balance cost and …

Electricity networks currently face massive investment requirements. This paper argues that, given the investment … requirements, (international) benchmarking is not an adequate tool for the regulation of transmission system operators (TSO … high. The paper discusses options to reduce the weight of benchmarking in TSO regulation and options that do not rely on …

What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote … competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be … replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a non-trivial task. The cost of flawed coordination as a result of …

This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a … vertically integrated input monopolist to discriminate third parties on the downstream market. Currently, this is an issue in … network industries like telecommunications, electricity and railways and has sparked off a controversy in the literature. The …