consumer interests: theoretically analyzing the decisions an authority takes on both the unbundling regime and the grid charge … consumer-oriented goals to always implement Ownership Unbundling. For a regulator acting in the interests of the industry or … the government, though, results suggest the authority to be indifferent between Legal and Ownership Unbundling; minor …

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our … supply. Overall, we have two main conclusions. First, the major step in the unbundling process is from "lean legal unbundling …" to "fat legal unbundling"; additional steps beyond that are small, both in benefits and in costs. Second, the benefits of …

coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …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 …

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a … empirical evidence that unbundling eliminates economies of vertical integration while empirical evidence on price reducing …

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a … empirical evidence that unbundling eliminates economies of vertical integration while empirical evidence on price reducing …

-reducing, EU law requires unbundling (separation) of the VIU networks. However, the EU allows its member states the choice between … incomplete (legal) and complete (ownership) unbundling. There is tantalizing anecdotal evidence that VIUs have tried to influence … are perceived as more corrupt are indeed more likely to apply weaker forms of unbundling. Somewhat surprisingly, we do not …

. -- natural gas ; networks ; regulation ; ownership unbundling ; panel data … empirically analyse the effect of ownership unbundling of gas transmission networks as the strongest form of vertical separation … avoid the endogeneity problem and to estimate the long-run effects of regulation. We introduce a set of regulatory …

We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in …