Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  Rolf Golombek
Author-Name:  Eystein Gjelsvik
Author-Name:  Knut Einar Rosendahl
Title:  Increased Competition on the Supply Side of the Western European Natural Gas Market
Classification-JEL: F0
Pages:  1-18
Volume:  Volume19
Issue:  Number 3
Year:  1998
Abstract:  This paper analyzes how the supply side of the Western European natural gas market may react if the demand side becomes competitive. We show-using a numerical model of the Western European natural gas market-that once the demand side of the market is liberalized, each gasproducing country has an incentive to break up its gas sellers. The model therefore suggests that there may be numerous producers in a liberalized natural gas market. Hence, in a liberalized market consumers will not be exploited by suppliers.
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