The impact of imperfect competition in emission permits trading on oligopolistic electricity markets

Energy Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 145-166

  Limpaitoon, Tanachai ^a   Chen, Yihsu ^b   Oren, Shmuel S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cap and trade program; Conjectural variation; Market power; Power market modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899754961     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/01956574.35.3.7     Document Type: Article

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