Agent-based simulations for electricity market regulation advice: Procedures and an example

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 228, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 149-172

  Weidlich, Anke ^a   Veit, Daniel ^a   Mannheim, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agent based computational economics; CO2 emissions trading; Electricity markets; Market interrelations; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349100944     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2008-2-303     Document Type: Article

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