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http://dx.doi.org/10.15266/KEREA.2014.23.3.497

Limited Cost-Based Competition and the Cost Distortion Factor - How Real Variable Costs are Reported in Cost-Base Pool of Korean Power Market -  

Kim, Myung-Seok (Graduate School of Sungsil University, Department of Economics)
Cho, Sung Bong (Sungsil University, Department of Economics)
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Environmental and Resource Economics Review / v.23, no.3, 2014 , pp. 497-513 More about this Journal
Abstract
Rate-of-return regulation where a regulator compensates the utilities based upon the cost incurred the regulated companies have the incentive to over-report cost level. However, in case of cost-based competition where a regulator knows the cost of each plant involved and induce the competition among them, one can encounter prisoner's dilemma situation in the short run where the regulated firms under-report cost level. For instance, in case of cost-based pool, a generator may have a strategic behavior to keep its registered variable cost higher than the actual level to maintain its operation rate and generation amounts higher. Eventually, however, such behavior decrease the profitability of a generator and discourage new entry jeopardizing required level of capacity reserves. This is a typical Prisoner's Dilemma situation. The power market operating rule should be revised so that generators' registered variable cost reflect actual level of variable cost.
Keywords
Rate-of-return regulation; Market reflected variable costs; Performance test of assessing a generation cost; Registered variable costs; Actual variable costs;
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