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This paper proposes an incentive mechanism for transmission expansion planning. The mechanism is a bilevel program. The upper level is a profit-maximizing transmission company (Transco) which expands its transmission system while endogenously predicts and influences the generation investment....
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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 …
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Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …
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We analyze various regulatory regimes for electricity transmission investment in the context of a power system …
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A shift from zonal pricing to smaller zones and nodal pricing improves efficiency and security of system operation. Resulting price changes do however also shift profits and surplus between and across generation and load. As individual actorscan lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how...
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traditions and is shown to apply well to electricity transmission pricing and investment. In particular, it induces immediately …
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