Working Papers: Recent submissions
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The role of content regulation on pricing and market power in regional retail and wholesale gasoline markets
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2002)Since 1999, regional retail and wholesale gasoline markets in the United States have experienced significant price volatility, both intertemporally and across geographic markets. This paper focuses on one potential explanation ... -
Auctions to gas transmission access : the British experience
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2002)When access to monopoly owned networks is constrained auctioning access rights can increase the efficiency of allocations relative to negotiation and grandfathering when there is sufficient competition among network users. ... -
Nordic electricity congestion's arrangement as a model for Europe : physical constraints or operators' opportunism?
(MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2002)Congestion on power grids seems a physical reality, a "hard" fact easy to check. Our paper models a different idea: congestion signal may be distorted by transmission system operators (TSOs), which puts the European ...
