INNOVATION AND COMPETITION IN GENERATION AND RETAIL POWER MARKETS

  1. Elizabeth Hooper1,*,
  2. Catherine Waddams Price2,*

Article first published online: 7 JUN 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2010.01999.x

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Economic Affairs

Economic Affairs

Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 13–20, June 2010

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Hooper, E. and Price, C. W. (2010), INNOVATION AND COMPETITION IN GENERATION AND RETAIL POWER MARKETS. Economic Affairs, 30: 13–20. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2010.01999.x

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  1. 1

    Norwich Business School

  2. 2

    ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and Professor at Norwich Business School

*Catherine Waddams Price is Director of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and Professor at Norwich Business School (c.waddams@uea.ac.uk).
Elizabeth Hooper is a research student at Norwich Business School (Elizabeth.A.Hooper@uea.ac.uk).

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  1. Issue published online: 7 JUN 2010
  2. Article first published online: 7 JUN 2010

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Keywords:

  • Competition policy;
  • energy;
  • electricity markets;
  • innovation

There has been considerable merger activity in EU energy markets in recent years. It could be argued that competition authorities should be required to take into account potential innovation effects of mergers. In the UK, regulators are now trying to achieve multiple objectives within the current framework. There is a danger that if markets are expected to deliver mutually incompatible objectives they will be unable to achieve any of them.

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