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El Irati, Compañía General de Maderas, Fuerzas Hidráulicas y Tranvía Eléctrico de Navarra: una empresa autoproductora comercial de electricidad, 1904-1961
Garrues-Irurzun, Josean - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The study of the Irati hydroelectric company aims to show some of the business strategies behind the first stages of the development of electricity in Spain and, in turn, pose new questions regarding the factors and conditioning elements of the country’s regional industrialization processes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008578288
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The political economy of electricity market liberalization: a cross-country approach
Erdogdu, Erkan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
More than half of the countries in the world have introduced a reform process in their power sectors and billions of dollars have been spent on liberalizing electricity markets around the world. Ideological considerations, political composition of governments and educational/professional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323223
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The political economy of electricity market liberalization: a cross-country approach
Erdogdu, E. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2012
More than half of the countries in the world have introduced a reform process in their power sectors and billions of dollars have been spent on liberalizing electricity markets around the world. Ideological considerations, political composition of governments and educational/professional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699808
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Regulation, Industry Structure and Performance in the Electricity Supply Industry
Steiner, Faye - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000
This paper seeks to assess the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on performance in the generation segment of the electricity supply industry. Regulatory indicators for a panel of 19 OECD countries over a 10 year time period were constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045823
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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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Liberalisation of network industries : is electricity an exception to the rule?
Coppens, François; Vivet, David - 2004
) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards deregulation of such industries has been observed. This trend started with … the economies of scale have disappeared as a result of emerging new technologies. The successful deregulation in … substantial. Moreover, in addition to the deregulation process, the electricity sector is also subject to other changes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285766
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Market Power in the Nordic Wholesale Electricity Market: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Tangerås, Thomas - 2008
We review the recent empirical research concerning market power on the Nordic wholesale market for electricity, Nord Pool. There is no evidence of blatant and systematic exploitation of system level market power on Nord Pool. However, generation companies seem from time to time able to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320387
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Structure and stylized facts of a deregulated power market
Simonsen, Ingve; Weron, Rafal; Mo, Birger - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Dramatic changes to the structure of the power sector have taken place over the past few decades. The major structural change being the introduction of competitive markets and power exchanges. In this paper, we conduct a detailed empirical study of the statistical properties of the Nordic power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790257
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Consumer Preference Not to Choose: Methodological and Policy Implications
Brennan, Timothy - 2005
Residential consumers remain reluctant to choose new electricity suppliers. Even the most successful jurisdictions, four U.S. states and other countries, have had to adopt extensive consumer education procedures that serve largely to confirm that choosing electricity suppliers is daunting....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138490
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Manipulated, Misled, Ignored, Abused: Residential Consumer Experience with Electric Deregulation in the United Kingdom
Jewell, Kevin - EconWPA - 2004
jumped after deregulation, and new types of complaints such as unauthorized switching of service (“slamming”) arose. Failure … existing customer base. Higher prices for low- income consumers: Since deregulation begain in 1990, there has been a marked …
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