Associations` Agreement and the Interest of the Network Suppliers - The Strategic Use of Structural FeaturesAssociations` Agreement • September 6th, 2005
The EU electricity directive (96/92/EC) established the right of the member states to choose between Regulated and Negotiated Third Party Access (RTPA and NTPA). The interest group theory is able to explain whether the introduction of NTPA in Germany had been an interest group equilibrium under the restriction of EU-directive. Using the NTPA associations of electricity power suppliers, network monopolists and industrial consumers negotiated three agreements. The last one (AA VVII+) in December 2001 introduced a market comparison scheme with three structural features: “East-/West-Germany”, “consumption/population density”, and “cable rate”. These features are variables which are supposed to reflect cost differences between network suppliers. The theoretical analysis will derive the hypothesis that this conception allows to introduce a cost irrelevant factor and therefore to increase prices without harming firms which do not hold this factor. This hypothesis could be tested by analyzing
As amended June 17, 2010)Associations Agreement • August 15th, 2011 • Nevada
THIS AGREEMENT is entered into as of this 1st day of July 2010, between the NEVADA INTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION (the “NIAA”), the MEMBER
