Market power and network constraint in a deregulated electricity market.

From: The Energy Journal | Date: April 1, 2007| Author: Cho, In-Koo; Kim, Hyunsook | Copyright information

This paper investigates the market power and the welfare performance of the deregulated wholesale electricity market of California between 1998 and 2000 by incorporating the structure of the transmission network. While Wolfram (1999), Borenstein, Bushnell, and Wolak (2002) and Joskow and Kahn (2002) treat the difference between the market price and the marginal production cost of the marginal generator as the indicator for market power, we decompose the difference into the market p...

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