The Comision Reguladora de Energia of Mexico has implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican natural gas price to the Texas natural gas benchmark price in an industry structure characterized by a vertically integrated state-owned monopoly. This paper shows that in an open economy where...

There is an intense debate regarding the best way to attract investment for the long-term expansion of an electricity transmission network. We study three hypotheses: the long-term financial-transmission-right hypothesis; the incentive-regulation hypothesis; and the market-power hypothesis. The...

Este ensayo considera la regulacion de la determinacion de los precios del gas licuado de petroleo en Mexico. Se establece un modelo que incluye toda la informacion esencial para la determinacion de los precios y se derivan las relaciones que deberian existir entre los precios en Mexico y los de...