Price interactions and discovery among natural gas spot markets in North America

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 290-302

  Park, Haesun ^a   Mjelde, James W ^b   Bessler, David A ^b  

^a Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Directed acyclic graphs; Natural gas pricing; Vector error correction

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MARKETING; NATURAL GAS; NORTH AMERICA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; NATURAL GAS PRICING; VECTOR ERROR CORRECTION;

GAS SUPPLY;

COMMODITY PRICE; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ENERGY MARKET; ERROR CORRECTION; GAS SUPPLY; NATURAL GAS; PRICE DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 36549021488     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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