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Unbundling, regulation and pricing: Evidence from electricity distribution
Heim, Sven; Krieger, Bastian; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2018
Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a … switch in the price regulation regime from rate-of-return regulation to incentive regulation during our observation period …
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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - 2014
Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based ('next generation access', NGA) telecommunications infrastructure seem to be uncontroversial, a universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. We contend, however, that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334378
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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based ('next generation access', NGA) telecommunications infrastructure seem to be uncontroversial, a universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. We contend, however, that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957680
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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition: Evidence from German electricity submarkets
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - 2011
In German electricity submarkets for residential customers standard contracts offered by former monopolists are the more costly option for customers who have not switched to an alternative contract yet. As most German households are served with this contract type we follow the Limit Pricing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307842
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Patterns of entry and exit in the deregulated German interurban bus industry
Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2017
We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its deregulation in January 2013. Using a comprehensive data set of all firm and route entries and exits, we find that the industry grew much quicker than originally expected - with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011739421
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Competition in the German interurban bus industry: A snapshot two years after liberalization
Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015
We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In addition to a brief characterization of the liberalization process and several general market developments, we provide a detailed analysis of selected market characteristics such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314568
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Screening instruments for monitoring market power in wholesale electricity markets: Lessons from applications in Germany
Bataille, Marc; Steinmetz, Alexander; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2014
While liberalization in energy markets has been a widely successful process all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010392328
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Strategic pricing, market entry and competition: Evidence from German electricity submarkets
Nikogosian, Vigen; Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In German electricity submarkets for residential customers standard contracts offered by former monopolists are the more costly option for customers who have not switched to an alternative contract yet. As most German households are served with this contract type we follow the Limit Pricing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646596
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Screening instruments for monitoring market power in wholesale electricity markets: Lessons from applications in Germany
Bataille, Marc; Steinmetz, Alexander; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
While liberalization in energy markets has been a widely successful process all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957651
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Competition in the German Broadband Access Market
Vanberg, Margit A. - 2002
, there is a need for unbundling regulation to foster competition. Improvements to the current open-network regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297466