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This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
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In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets, explaining the evolution of competitive constraints when consumers are introduced to supplier choice for the first time. In the context of rising real energy prices for consumers, and...
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policy debate on interconnector expansion and studies two particular points. First, the effects of network regulation on the …
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the efficient and the monopoly benchmarks. There remains a rationale for regulation, albeit reduced relative to the …, in which regulation has been imposed on what appears to be a competitive industry. We introduce a framework which … the termination charge being set at the monopoly level), and one analyzing mobile-to-mobile network interconnection (where …
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transition from regulation to product market competition. First, we develop a theoretical framework that models this particular …
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-cap incentive regulation, independent regulatory agencies and an emphasis on introducing competition where possible. For each …, and these weaknesses call for a model of regulation designed specifically to address them …
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sector regulation and objectives as a context within the process of implementation of competition law in the energy sector … and third, we will investigate how sector regulation in energy sector incorporates competition law principles and affirms … combined with the need for effectiveness and focus on other than competition objectives of sector regulation and we will result …
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This paper proposes an extended version of the analytical structural model for the electricity market developed in a previous paper. The presented electricity price process is driven by stochastic load and random plant availability as well as stochastic marginal generation cost factors embedded...
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This paper presents an analytical structural model for the electricity price process driven by stochastic load as well as stochastic marginal generation costs in a multi-fuel stack framework covering the entire fuel switch dynamics. Moreover, the random character of available generation capacity...
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This study analyzes the effects of additional interconnection on welfare and competition in the Irish electricity market. I simulate the wholesale electricity markets of Great Britain and the island of Ireland for 2005. I find that in order for the two markets to be integrated in 2005,...
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