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Competition Law and Sector Regulation in the European Energy Market after the Third Energy Package : Hierarchy and Efficiency
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2012
general competition and sector specific frameworks and rules regarding the regulation of the Internal Energy Market …-by-case solutions, which lack the breadth of objectives expressed by sector regulation. On the other hand, sector regulation seems to … hierarchical priority over sector-specific rules and its direct application cannot be excluded when sector regulation is …
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Do You Pay a Fair Price for Electricity? Consumers’ Satisfaction and Utility Reform in the EU
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2015
and entry regulation across the EU-15. Our results do not support a systematic association between consumers’ satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014138140
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010492454
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Energy Market Restructuring and Competition Regulation
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2014
, while we highlight the major points concerning competition regulation, which are related to the effort for the establishment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069761
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European Energy Regulators : An Empirical Analysis of Legal Competences
Jong, Thijs - 2015
This paper examines empirically whether differences in legal competences of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of European gas and electricity markets are rationally aligned to the corresponding countries' divergent levels of 1) security, 2) competitiveness, and 3) carbon-neutrality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024225
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Constrained Regulatory Exit in Energy Law
Rossi, Jim - 2018
think about the regulation of energy. In many respects, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) broad … the regulation of wholesale electricity rates, to increase regulation in other spheres. It has also invited forms of … regulator seeking to exit specific forms of conventional regulation needs to proactively develop strategies to facilitate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917493
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Integrating Regulated Network Markets in Europe
Gual, Jordi - 2007
This paper assesses the integration strategy of the European Union in regulated network markets. The paper argues that in these markets integration should not be an end in itself. In regulated markets the conventional gains from trade or freedom of establishment may be outweighed by significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012728944
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Economic Evidence in Regulatory Disputes : Revisiting the Court-Regulatory Agency Relationship in the US and the UK
Mantzari, Despoina - 2018
This article examines the issue of the appropriate scope of review of economic evidence enshrined in the discretionary assessments of utility regulators in the US and the UK. It advances a balance of institutional competencies approach to the question of the degree of deference owed to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936634
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The 'Regulatory Authority Dixit' Defense in European Competition Law Enforcement
Congedo, Dr Pierluigi - 2016
The European Commission (EC) and the European Courts have being reaffirming in the Deutsche Telekom and Telefónica cases that guide-prices established by sector regulators upon electronic communications incumbents cannot per se exclude that conducts with anticompetitive foreclosure effects,...
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