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Changing Industry Structure : The Economics of Entry and Price Competition

Duvall, Jerry B.; Ford, George S. - 2004

deregulation as the foundation for public policy towards the telecommunications and commercial broadcasting industries. By lowering …

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With whom to merge?: A tale of the Spanish banking deregulation process

Lozano Vivas, Ana; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A.; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 159-184

deregulation process. We find that once the geographic deregulation process finishes, inter-regional mergers between savings banks … will be mergers between savings and commercial banks. -- branch deregulation ; mergers ; optimal behavior ; Spanish banking …

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Merger Deregulation, Wages, and Inequality : Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry

Aneja, Abhay; Krishnamurthy, Prasad - 2022

We study the effect of bank merger deregulation on market structure and wages in the banking industry. We show that … state deregulation of bank mergers and acquisitions increased the market share of large, multi-state banks and lowered wages …. Deregulation had no measurable effect on employment within the banking industry, and no direct effect on banking …

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Market power in the Nordic wholesale electricity market : a survey of the empirical evidence

Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof (contributor); … - 2008

. -- Electricity markets ; deregulation ; market power ; hydro power ; transmission constraints …

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A fair price for energy? : ownership versus market opening in the EU15

Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...

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Power utility re-regulation in East European and CIS transformation countries (1990 - 1999) : an institutional interpretation

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Opitz, Petra - 2001

This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...

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Productivity in electricity retail after market liberalisation : analysing the effects of ownership and firm's governance structure

Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015

This paper, which is one of the first to estimate productivity in retail electricity for a European country after liberalisation, analyses the effect of ownership and governance structure by using a unique dataset of German electricity retailers from 2003 to 2012. An innovative service...

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Gas and electricity market design for a flexible operation of gas-fired power plants : summary report on Future Power Markets Workshop, held in Florence on 25 April 2014

Neuhoff, Karsten; Rüster, Sophia; Schwenen, Sebastian - 2014

Gas-fired power plants constitute a direct and important link between the gas and the electricity sectors and thus between the Target Models for electricity and gas. As the need for a flexible operation of gas-fired power plants will increase in tomorrow's low-carbon power markets, so also will...

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Does regulatory independence translate into a higher degree of liberalization? : evidence from EU energy regulators

Lindemann, Henrik - 2015

Independent regulatory authorities are a basic prerequisite for a successful liberalization process. However, contrary to what is expected, both graphical analyses and OLS regressions for a small sample of electricity and gas regulators operating in 16 European countries reveal a negative...

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Budgetary interests and the degree of unbundling in electricity markets : an empirical analysis for OECD countries

Lindemann, Henrik - 2015

The degree of liberalization in OECD electricity markets varies considerably across countries. Commonly explained by diverging economic performances, corruption levels or government ideologies, this paper suggest another potential reason for cross-national differences in market reforms: given...

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