This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a … vertically integrated input monopolist to discriminate third parties on the downstream market. Currently, this is an issue in … network industries like telecommunications, electricity and railways and has sparked off a controversy in the literature. The …

energy subsidy and increase the share of renewable energy sources used to generate electricity. In this paper we assess the … current conditions under which the Mexican residential electricity sector operates, and quantify the potential effects that …

-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the electricity market as well as the impact on costs and security of …

replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a non-trivial task. The cost of flawed coordination as a result of … underlined with lessons from (European) electricity and railways. …

, since it is only the capacity part that "opens the door" to the reserve market. We find that a simultaneous scoring is …How should we select winning bids of generation units for strategic reserves that consist of capacity bids and energy … simultaneous scoring rule, capacity and energy bids are weighted and combined to a single score based on which the cheapest bids …

Electricity networks currently face massive investment requirements. This paper argues that, given the investment …

We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with … compared so as to illustrate the amount of excessive transmission capacity investment and welfare losses associated with the …