The EU has been promoting unbundling of the transmission grid from other stages of the electricity supply chain with … the aim of fostering competition in the upstream stage of electricity generation. At presence, ownership unbundling is the … predominant form of unbundling in Europe. However, the benefits of increased competition from ownership unbundling of the …

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our … supply. Overall, we have two main conclusions. First, the major step in the unbundling process is from "lean legal unbundling …" to "fat legal unbundling"; additional steps beyond that are small, both in benefits and in costs. Second, the benefits of …

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 … coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …