Market power mitigation by regulating contract portfolio risk

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3787-3796

  Willems, Bert ^a,b   De Corte, Emmanuel ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

European electricity markets; Market power mitigation; Regulation of contracts

Indexed keywords

RISK MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRICITY MARKETS; EUROPEAN ELECTRICITY MARKETS; MARKET POWER; MARKET POWER MITIGATION; REGULATION OF CONTRACTS;

MARKETING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY MARKET; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 51349099714     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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