Sedliačik, Ivan, 1975-

Unintended consequences of interventions in electricity production and consumption / Ivan Sedliačik, Jaroslav Ďaďo ; rec. Çetin Bektaş. -- Government interventions are contradictory theme in economic science. Subsidies and price control in electricity production and consumption are justified to "treat" negative externalities such as climate changes, security of supplies, innovation or unemployment issues. Many authors contradict such a treatment and prove to be ineffective. Our main focus in this article is to analyze interventions and their consequences in electricity market in Slovakia. We refer to claim of Mises, that intervention produces unintended consequences, leads to escalating price fixing and at the end it eliminates the market altogether. We examined intention, goals and tools of Slovak regulatory agency and proved those are unduly determined and will not lead to desired ends. We have proved that real outcomes of this policy had led to unintended consequences such as excess of production facilities, declining prices of electricity, decreased profitability of all producers and exit from market of marginal produ

In New trends and issues proceedings on humanities and social sciences : 5th world conference on business, economics and management BEM 2016, Istanbul, 12-14 May 2016. -- Nicosia : Academic World Education & Research Center, 2017. -- ISSN 2421-8030. -- Vol. 3, no. 4 (2017), pp. 16-22