Theory and empirics suggest that by curbing competition, incumbent electricity companies which used to be and here are …

In the EU electricity industry, many Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) have ownership both of electricity …

decreased. These results are of interest for regulators of the EU electricity industry. The extant EU regulatory framework … Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) to have ownership of generating and transmission activities. When electricity generators … activities, is in the position of a privileged bidder. The VIU will secure a higher profit, while competing electricity …

risk management. We develop an equilibrium model that fits electricity markets well. We point out that vertical integration … retail mar kets. We illustrate our analysis with data from the French electricity market. …

This paper studies the electricity market design long run problem of ensuring enough generation capacity to meet future …

Residential consumers remain reluctant to choose new electricity suppliers. Even the most successful jurisdictions … confirm that choosing electricity suppliers is daunting. Electricity is not unique in this respect; numerous studies find that …

Regulatory reform in the Nordic electricity-supply markets has resulted in a single integrated Nordic electricity … Nordic electricity market. …

risk management. We develop an equilibrium model that fits electricity markets well. We point out that vertical integration … retail mar kets. We illustrate our analysis with data from the French electricity market. …

This paper shows that generators exercised increasing market power in the England and Wales wholesale electricity … static, non-cooperative oligopoly models, which are widely used to model electricity markets, by testing the static Nash …