Removing Cross-Border Capacity Bottlenecks in the European Natural Gas Market-A Proposed Merchant-Regulatory Mechanism
- We propose a merchant-regulatory framework to promote investment in the European natural gas network infrastructure based on a price cap over two-part tariffs. As suggested by Vogelsang (J Regul Econ 20:141-165, 2001) and Hogan et al. (J Regul Econ 38:113-143, 2010), a profit maximizing network operator facing this regulatory constraint will intertemporally rebalance the variable and fixed part of its two-part tariff so as to expand the congested pipelines, and converge to the Ramsey-Boiteaux equilibrium. We confirm this with actual data from the European natural gas market by comparing the bi-level price-cap model with different reference cases. We analyze the performance of the regulatory approach under different market scenarios, and identify relevant aspects that need to be addressed if the approach were to be implemented.
Author details: | Anne Neumann, Juan Rosellon, Hannes Weigt |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11067-014-9273-3 |
ISSN: | 1566-113X |
ISSN: | 1572-9427 |
Title of parent work (English): | Networks and spatial economics : a journal of infrastructure modeling and computation |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publishing: | Dordrecht |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | Europe; Investment; Natural gas network; Regulation |
Volume: | 15 |
Issue: | 1 |
Number of pages: | 33 |
First page: | 149 |
Last Page: | 181 |
Funding institution: | Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute; European Community; Conacyt [p. 131175] |
Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
Peer review: | Referiert |