The Comisión Reguladora de Energía has implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican market for natural gas with the North American market. This paper shows that in an open economy where agents can chose between gas ...

We develop in this paper a model where the government is seeking to cboose an optimal rule of origin which maximizes the labor income (which measures social welfare) and solves the conflict in the productive chain by: a) ...

This paper studies certain aspects of rules of origin. Rules of origin are nothing but regulations used to identify the country of origin of the goods of international trade. Every country requires rules of origin for ...

This paper provides a new mechanism on how to overcome transmission expansion in the specific European context. We test the Hogan-Rosellón-Vogelsang (2007) (HRV) incentive mechanism for different network topologies. The ...

This paper addresses the timing of optimal investment in LPG pipelines when the goal is to maximize consumer surplus less private cost and social of transporting LPG. The loss of consumer surplus is small. The important ...

This research presents an application of the Hogan, Rosellón and Vogelsang (2010) (HRV) mechanism —that promotes electricity transmission network expansion— in the Peruvian electricity transmission system known as ...

El objetivo del presente documento es la reseña de diversos desarrollos analíticos y empíricos recientes de la economía de la ciencia. Estos desarrollos son de interés para la problemática actual de la política científica ...

We analyzed the Mexican proposal to restructure the electricity sector. The main results that we get are the following. First, given the current technologies for generation that belong to CFE and LFC and the new technologies ...

We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in the light of realistic demand patterns and fluctuating wind power. In particular, we are interested in ...

After the regulatory reform experienced in the Mexican gas sector, three areas with market power remained. Production is a legal monopoly of Pemex. Transportation and distribution are natural monopolies. Distributor’s gas ...