Optimal electricity generation portfolios: The impact of price spread modelling

Computational Management Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-399

  Ziegler, Daniel ^a   Schmitz, Katrin ^a   Weber, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decision making; Portfolio theory; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865417874     PISSN: 1619697X     EISSN: 16196988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10287-012-0150-6     Document Type: Article

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