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Asymmetric Vertical Integration

Buehler, Stefan ; Schmutzler, Armin

In: Advances in Theoretical Economics, 2005, vol. 5, no. 1, p. -

Università della Svizzera italiana

Resource rent taxation and benchmarking : a new perspective for the Swiss hydropower sector

Banfi, Silvia ; Filippini, Massimo

In: Energy policy, 2010, vol. 38, no. 5, p. 2302-2308

The electricity generation in Switzerland is mainly based on hydropower (55% of total production). The exploitation of water in the hydropower sector can generate significant so-called resource rents. These are defined by the surplus return above the value of capital, labor, materials and energy used to exploit hydropower. In Switzerland, hydropower producers pay to the State a fixed fee per...

Università della Svizzera italiana

An analysis of cost efficiency in Swiss multi-utilities

Farsi, Mehdi ; Filippini, Massino

In: Energy economics, 2009, vol. 31, no. 2, p. 306-315

This study presents an empirical analysis of the cost efficiency of a sample of Swiss multi-utilities operating in the distribution of electricity, natural gas and water. The multi-utilities that operate in different sectors are characterized by a strong unobserved heterogeneity. Therefore the measurement of their performance poses an important challenge for the regulators. The purpose of...

Université de Fribourg

Feedback and efficiency in limit order markets

Challet, Damien

In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2008, vol. 387, no. 15, p. 3831-3836

A consistency criterion for price impact functions in limit order markets is proposed that prohibits chain arbitrage exploitation. Both the bid-ask spread and the feedback of sequential market orders of the same kind onto both sides of the order book are essential to ensure consistency at the smallest time scale. All the stocks investigated in Paris Stock Exchange have consistent price impact...