Market power and price volatility in restructured markets for electricity

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 311-325

  Mount, Tim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC RATES; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING;

DISCRIMINATORY PRICE AUCTION (DPA); ELECTRICITY SPOT PRICES; UNIFORM PRICE AUCTION (UPA);

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0035147721     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(00)00108-1     Document Type: Article

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