Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/117711 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Hannover Economic Papers (HEP) No. 544
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
Despite the positive effect electricity grids separated from generation and supply by ownership are expected to have on the level of competition in the non-network activities, several EU member states still adhere to a solely legally unbundled transmission grid. This choice might be induced by regulators focusing on objectives other than the promotion of consumer interests: theoretically analyzing the decisions an authority takes on both the unbundling regime and the grid charge when it supervises a network monopolist providing a downstream Cournot duopoly with capacity, we find an agency pursuing 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 potential drawbacks of a network separated by ownership for the agency or the companies might then tip the scales and cause the regulator to adhere to Legal Unbundling.
Subjects: 
Legal Unbundling
Ownership Unbundling
Regulatory Authorities
Regulatory Objectives
JEL: 
D73
L12
L13
L42
L50
L51
L94
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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