Cournot versus Supply Functions: What does the data tell us?

Energy Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-47

  Willems, Bert ^a,b   Rumiantseva, Ina ^c   Weigt, Hannes ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cournot competition; Electricity markets; Supply Function Equilibrium

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; COURNOT; COURNOT COMPETITION; COURNOT MODELS; DEMAND AND SUPPLIES; ELECTRICITY MARKETS; MARKET DATUMS; NETWORK CONSTRAINTS; OLIGOPOLISTIC ELECTRICITY MARKETS; PRICE VARIATIONS; SFE MODELS; SUPPLY FUNCTION EQUILIBRIUM; SUPPLY FUNCTION EQUILIBRIUMS; SUPPLY FUNCTIONS; TERM ANALYSIS;

MARKETING;

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DEMAND ELASTICITY; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY MARKET; OLIGOPOLY;

EID: 56949104835     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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