de Frutos, Maria-Angeles; Fabra, Natalia; Fehr, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Motivated by the regulatory debate in electricity markets, we seek to understand how market design affects market … performance through its impact on investment incentives. For this purpose, we study a two-stage game in which firms choose their … investment incentives at the margin are poorer; indeed, under reasonable assumptions on the shape of the demand distribution, the …