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Reform de"r Erdgaswirtschaft in der EU und in Deutschland: Wie viel Regulierung braucht der Wettbewerb?

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This article analyses the reform process in the European and the German natural gas sector. Competition in the industry and intra‐European trade have been underdeveloped thus far. We argue that the European gas pipelines are a monopolistic bottleneck that require some form of access regulation, e.g. in the form of an Entry‐Exit System. We discuss how regulation should be implemented at the European level and, subsequently, in Germany. We conclude that the European Gas Directive 2003/55/EC and the new Energy Law in Germany offer a good point of departure for further reforms towards an integrated European market for natural gas.

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  • Christian Von Hirschhausen, 2006. "Reform de"r Erdgaswirtschaft in der EU und in Deutschland: Wie viel Regulierung braucht der Wettbewerb?," Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 7(1), pages 89-103, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:perwir:v:7:y:2006:i:1:p:89-103
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-6493.2006.00200.x
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    2. Böttger, T. & Grimm, V. & Kleinert, T. & Schmidt, M., 2022. "The cost of decoupling trade and transport in the European entry-exit gas market with linear physics modeling," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 297(3), pages 1095-1111.
    3. Franz, Oliver & Schäffner, Daniel & Trage, Bastian, 2005. "Grundformen der Entgeltregulierung: Vor- und Nachteile von Price-Cap, Revenue-Cap und hybriden Ansätzen," WIK Discussion Papers 267, WIK Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste GmbH.
    4. Veronika Grimm & Julia Grübel & Martin Schmidt & Alexandra Schwartz & Ann-Kathrin Wiertz & Gregor Zöttl, 2025. "On a tractable single-level reformulation of a multilevel model of the European entry-exit gas market with market power," Journal of Global Optimization, Springer, vol. 91(4), pages 953-985, April.

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