How well can one measure market power in restructured electricity systems?

Electricity Reform in Europe: Towards a Single Energy Market

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 207-268

  Smeers, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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