Introducing Competition in the French Electricity Supply Industry: The  Destabilisation of a Public Hierarchy in an Open Institutional Environment

Finon, Dominique

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Finon, Dominique

Datum

2004-06-16

Series

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics

Publisher

Faculty of Economics

Language

en_GB

Type

Working Paper

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Citation

Finon, D. (2004). Introducing Competition in the French Electricity Supply Industry: The Destabilisation of a Public Hierarchy in an Open Institutional Environment. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.5399

Abstrakt

The French electricity supply industry is characterized by a vertically integrated monopoly and public ownership and when the government introduced market rules, it was with the aim of preserving the integration of the public incumbent as a national champion. This had two paradoxical effects in favour of competition development and the building of safeguards for entrants:

Keywords

Classification-JEL: L14, L22, L51, L94, L98, regulation, electricity

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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.5399

This record's URL: http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/346 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/346

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