Estimating marginal costs and market power in the Italian electricity auctions

2010 7th International Conference on the European Energy Market, EEM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bosco, Bruno ^a   Parisio, Lucia ^a   Pelagatti, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bidding behaviour in electricity markets; Estimates of optimal bid functions; Measures of market power

Indexed keywords

CONTROL VARIABLE; ELECTRICITY AUCTIONS; ELECTRICITY MARKET; ELECTRICITY SECTOR; ESTIMATES OF OPTIMAL BID FUNCTIONS; MARGINAL COSTS; MARKET EQUILIBRIA; MARKET POWER; OPTIMAL BIDS; PROFIT MAXIMIZATION; UNOBSERVABLE; WHOLESALE ELECTRICITY MARKETS;

COMMERCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 77957808321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EEM.2010.5558723     Document Type: Conference Paper

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