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Electricity transmission infrastructure has a fundamental role in the process of integrating national electricity markets in Europe to a single market. Transmission expansion takes place within institutional frameworks that sets the conditions for expansions. So far, most of the transmission business has been organised under the centralised and regulated transmission system operators (TSOs). This...
The paper examines the transactions costs in the Swedish electricity retail market arising as a result of the implementation of a green certificate system. Since transaction costs cannot be measured directly, we analyze the margin between what the retailers pay for the certificates and what they charge the end-users for the certificate service. Our results highlight some costs of implementing new...
The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the welfare effects of a proposed merger in the Swedish electric power market, using firm level data on power capacity. By using a simulation model we calculate the unilateral effects of the merger on the welfare effects for society. The merger is then evaluated, using a tacit collusion (coordinated effects) framework highlighting important features of...
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