Veit Böckers

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Manager at EY Strategy and Transaction

In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity in the German wholesale electricity market. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5 GW generation capacity as well as its extra-high...

Der vorliegende Beitrag ermittelt das aktuelle Ausmaß kommunaler Betätigung in der Abfallwirtschaft auf Basis von 9248 deutschen Gemeinden und Städten. Vor allem in Großstädten mit über 100.000 Einwohnern haben Kommunen fast vollständig die Restmüllsammlung übernommen. Zwar wird insgesamt über alle Kommunen betrachtet nur für knapp 34 % der Gebiete...

The market for passenger transport has significantly changed since the German long-distance bus market has been deregulated in January 2013. Today we already find significant effects on long-distance rail transport services, especially in the periphery of the rail network. We find that the demand for high-speed trains in Germany, called Intercity E...

The focus of this paper is the empirical evaluation of the German Accelerated Vehicle Retirement program, that was implemented in January 2009 to stimulate automobile consumption. To adress this question a monthly dataset of new car registrations owned by private consumers from March 2001 until October 2011 is created. Especially small and upper sm...

Im Zuge der von der Bundesregierung eingeleiteten Energiewende wird zunehmend die Frage diskutiert, wie bei einem forcierten Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien und der dadurch zunehmenden Fluktuation der Stromerzeugung die Versorgungssicherheit gewährleistet werden kann. Zur Diskussion steht die Einführung von Kapazitätsmechanismen zur Ergänzung oder...

This paper analyzes the convergence process of Central-West European wholesale electricity markets from 2004 to the beginning of 2011. Jevon's law of price indifference is scrutinized using price correlation, parametric and nonparametric tests of price-differences and cointegration analysis. As a unique identifaction strategy national bank holidays...

Competition authorities and regulatory bodies have increasingly made use of econometric and statistical methods in their analysis. Due to limitations of time and data, so-called screening methods have become more and more important in order to decide whether an in-depth inquiry is warranted. This paper uses a new econometric approache to screen sel...