Electricity wholesale market prices in Europe: Convergence?

Energy Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1659-1671

  Zachmann, Georg ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electricity prices; European integration; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUCTION PRICES; ELECTRICITY PRICES; ELECTRICITY SECTOR; MARKET INTEGRATION; WHOLESALE MARKET;

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY;

CONVERGENCE; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 43449093434     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2007.07.002     Document Type: Article

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