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Intermittent Renewable Generation and Network Congestion : An Empirical Analysis of Italian Power Market

Ardian, Faddy - 2015

The literature demonstrates the likely reduction of wholesale electricity prices due to a larger penetration of renewable energy sources (RES). When markets are organized as two or more inter-connected sub-markets within a larger power market the final impact of increasing RES production may be...

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Legal Unbundling, Regulation and Pricing : Evidence from Electricity Distribution

Heim, Sven - 2020

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries and has been implemented in many jurisdictions. The idea of separating the network, as the natural monopoly, from downstream retailing, which may be exposed to competition, is...

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Unbundling, regulation and pricing : evidence from electricity distribution

Heim, Sven; Krieger, Bastian; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2018

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Network utilities performance and institutional quality : evidence from the Italian electricity sector

Soroush, Golnoush; Cambini, Carlo; Jamasb, Tooraj; … - 2020

It is generally accepted that institutions are important for economic development. However, whether the performance of regulated utilities within a country is affected by the quality of institutions is yet to be investigated thoroughly. We analyse how the quality of regional institutions impact...

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Does Water Scarcity Shift the Electricity Generation Mix Toward Fossil Fuels? Empirical Evidence from the United States

Eyer, Jonathan - 2016

Water withdrawals for the energy sector are the largest use of fresh water in the United States. Using an econometric model of monthly plant-level electricity generation levels between 2001 and 2012, we estimate the effect of water scarcity on the US electricity fuel mix. We find that...

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Redesigning automated market power mitigation in electricity markets

Adelowo, Jacqueline; Bohland, Moritz - 2022

Electricity markets are prone to the abuse of market power. Several US markets employ algorithms to monitor and mitigate market power abuse in real time. The performance of automated mitigation procedures is contingent on precise estimates of firms' marginal production costs. Currently, marginal...

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On the functional form of short-term electricity demand response - insights from high-price years in Germany

Arnold, Fabian - 2023

Demand response is crucial for balancing supply and demand in the presence of intermittent electricity generation, particularly during scarcity situations with high prices. In 2021/2022, wholesale power prices in Germany have been dramatically higher than ever before, which offers the...

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Exporting and productivity : the role of ownership and innovation in the case of Vietnam

Newman, Carol; Rand, John; Tarp, Finn; Nguyen Thi Tue Anh - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an … extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self … productivity in foreign-owned firms and private domestic firms separately and find the former benefit more from exporting …

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Impacts of ownership changes on emissions and industrial production : evidence from Europe

Chlond, Bettina; Germeshausen, Robert - 2023

facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … productivity and profits of other facilities and firms owned by the acquiring parent company after a change in ownership. …

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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …

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