Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74529 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 13-033
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and political discussions. Focusing on the South American electricity sector, I contrast static and dynamic impacts of ownership unbundling and third party access regimes on customer prices. Substantially different results are found using dynamic rather than static analysis. In particular, negative short term effects of ownership unbundling found in static models are approximately cancelled out by subsequent positive impacts in the dynamic model. Third party access seems to allow for similar benefits while avoiding the (restructuring) costs of ownership unbundling. Previously estimated static models thus appear to suffer from either omitted variable biases or endogeneity problems of static non-difference models.
Subjects: 
(De)Regulation
dynamic panel data analysis
electricity markets
market organization
unbundling
non-discriminatory (third party) access
JEL: 
L42
L51
L52
L94
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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