Electricity Retailing in Norway

Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and Petter Hansen ()

No 02/2009, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We analyse retailer and household behaviour on the Norwegian electricity market, based on detailed information on prices and other market characteristics. We find that there exists a competitive market segment where a number of retailers compete fiercely for customers, with small margins on all products. However, we also find evidence of monopolistic behaviour, whereby retailers exploit the passivity of some of their customers. We discuss explanations for these results, as well as means to improve market performance.

Keywords: Electricity retailing; electricity prices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2008-06-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ene and nep-mkt
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.sv.uio.no/econ/english/research/unpubl ... 009/Memo-02-2009.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Electricity Retailing in Norway (2010)
Journal Article: Electricity Retailing in Norway (2010)
Working Paper: Electricity Retailing in Norway (2009)
Working Paper: Electricity Retailing in Norway (2009)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:osloec:2009_002

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics Department of Economics, University of Oslo, P.O Box 1095 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mari Strønstad Øverås ().