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The CMA’s assessment of customer detriment in the UK retail energy market


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Littlechild, S. 

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In 2016, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found that “weak customer response” enabled incumbent UK energy retailers to set higher and discriminatory prices to residential customers. The CMA estimated the associated higher prices constituted

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retail energy markets, market power, efficient costs

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Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

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