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Pricing and regulation in multi-sided markets : implications for payment card networks and smart metering

Uhlenbrock, Jens - 2011

This thesis strives to offer new insights in two main areas. First, in the well-researched domain of payment cards chapters 2 and 3 investigate an aspect that has hitherto been scantly examined, namely, the fact that merchant usage fees differ substantially among merchant sectors. Additionally,...

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Residential sector deregulation in the electricity industry : analysis of electricity consumption patterns

Gupta, Pavan - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2004

deregulation of public service type infrastructure industries. In recent years, Australia's industry reform policies have … critically relied on rapid deregulation of major utilities such as telecommunication, gas and electricity. Although several … industries have been deregulated in the last two decades, our understanding regarding the impact of deregulation on residential …

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Market integration and regulation in European wholesale electricity markets : five essays on energy economics

Böckers, Veit - 2015

This thesis analyzes the impact of specific structural breaks, e.g., product innovation, and regulatory interventions in European wholesale electricity markets. Unlike other markets such as those for convenience goods, network-bound industries, including railways, telecommunications, gas and...

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Essays on the economics of electricity markets

Elberg, Christina - 2014

The thesis at hand includes three distinct essays that analyze economic issues related to liberalized electricity markets. In the first essay, the effects of capacity mechanisms on the market structure in electricity markets are investigated. We consider a model with dominant firms and a...

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