decisions of 109 electricity distribution companies operating in Germany in 2006-2012. We hypothesize that Germany …'s implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional …

theoretically, and estimate empirically, that German electricity distribution system operators (DSOs) incur higher costs when … subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly significant (about 7%) for firms in the upper …

theoretically, and estimate empirically, that German electricity distribution system operators (DSOs) pile up more costs in the year … used to determine future prices when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The difference is particularly …

The European Commission is introducing new regulations on submission and publication of data in electricity markets … immediacy. I conclude that to achieve the aims of efficiently functioning wholesale electricity markets, fair and non …-discriminatory access to data and a coherent and consistent view of the European wholesale electricity market, it does not seem advisable to …

The degree of liberalization in OECD electricity markets varies considerably across countries. Commonly explained by … elasticity of power demand) the VAT on electricity. …

field for DG and conventional power generation. Due to the impact of DG on the electricity grid infrastructure, future … regulation should consider the costs and benefits of the integration of decentralized energy generation units. Without an … adequate consideration, the overall costs of the electricity generation system will be unnecessarily high. The present paper …

This paper provides a general characterization of overall power regulation and a detailed characterization of the … ongoing evolution of distributed rooftop photovoltaic (PV) regulation in Costa Rica. The paper further develops rooftop PV … the institutional architecture of power regulation in Costa Rica and contrasts it with international best practices …

with and without electricity regulation, and examine the changes in electricity price, electricity generation, coal price … government launched an unprecedented marketization reform in 2015 to deregulate the electricity price. This paper examines the … impact of the electricity price deregulation in the industry level. We first construct two-stage dynamic game models by …

-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the electricity market as well as the impact on costs and security of …

coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 … underlined with lessons from (European) electricity and railways. …