The impact of ownership on price-setting in retail-energy markets—The German case

Vigen Nikogosian and Tobias Veith ()

Energy Policy, 2012, vol. 41, issue C, 161-172

Abstract: This paper analyzes whether public ownership has an impact on providers' price-setting. Under the assumption of more efficient energy provision which benefits customers a large number of former energy monopolists have been privatized in line with the liberalization of energy markets in Germany at the end of the 1990s. However, current re-municipalizations are justified by similar arguments in the public debate.

Keywords: Ownership structure; Strategic price-setting; Vertical ownership relation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.10.028

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