-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the electricity market as well as the impact on costs and security of … unbundling in terms of increased competition do not come for free: unbundling is costly and it is important to balance cost and …The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our …

The Russian Federation is in the process of making major structural changes to its railway and electricity sectors …. Both sectors will be at least partly vertically disintegrated, with the aim of creating competition in the "upstream … role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy in reform, both in the past as an "advocate for competition" within the …

This publication (of 264 pages) represents the proceedings of a roundtable on regulation and competition issues arising … papers examining issues in the regulation of railways and submissions from 15 countries describing the regulatory regime for … railways and the competition issues that they have addressed in this sector. In addition, the publication includes a summary of …

What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote … competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be … coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …

promote and protect competition in electricity and gas markets. This is done by imposing rules regarding the ‘unbundling’: the … networks - is essential for open and effective competition in wholesale and retail electricity markets. Competition in … electricity (downstream exploitation). To mitigate these competition risks, it is necessary to grant access to transmission …

The degree of liberalization in OECD electricity markets varies considerably across countries. Commonly explained by … elasticity of power demand) the VAT on electricity. …

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … effects is still lacking. In this paper we study the effect of legal unbundling on grid charges in the German electricity … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a …

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … effects is still lacking. In this paper we study the effect of legal unbundling on grid charges in the German electricity … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a …

Despite the positive effect electricity grids separated from generation and supply by ownership are expected to have on … the level of competition in the non-network activities, several EU member states still adhere to a solely legally … consumer interests: theoretically analyzing the decisions an authority takes on both the unbundling regime and the grid charge …

Theory and empirics suggest that by curbing competition, incumbent electricity companies which used to be and here are … generation and transmission and/or distribution networks. Because curbing competition is generally believed to be welfare …-reducing, EU law requires unbundling (separation) of the VIU networks. However, the EU allows its member states the choice between …