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

unbundling) of the electricity transmission system operators in Germany. The study relies on the Residual Supply Index for its …This paper presents a social cost benefit analysis of ownership unbundling (as compared to legal und functional … effect of unbundling on capacity are of crucial importance. Overall, for the base-case, the net weighted discounted social …

The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and … Spain. The analysed fields of regulation are the relationship between the State and the rail companies, network access …. The aim of the paper is to give a comparative overview of the rail regulation from a critical point of view, rather than …

In this paper we discuss the European regulation policy regarding vertical separation in communications and electricity … industries. In the electricity sector the discussion concerns ownership unbundling while in communications the recent regulatory … debate is about functional separation. We conclude that for electricity, ownership unbundling seems to be the best option to …

In this paper we discuss the European regulation policy regarding vertical separation in communications and electricity … industries. In the electricity sector the discussion concerns ownership unbundling while in communications the recent regulatory … debate is about functional separation. We conclude that for electricity, ownership unbundling seems to be the best option to …

electricity markets, an eminent policy issue for which the experimental evidence is scant and problematic. Specifically, we … concentration in the European electricity industries. Our experimental data suggest that introducing a forward market has a positive …

. -- natural gas ; networks ; regulation ; ownership unbundling ; panel data … empirically analyse the effect of ownership unbundling of gas transmission networks as the strongest form of vertical separation … avoid the endogeneity problem and to estimate the long-run effects of regulation. We introduce a set of regulatory …