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Market power mitigation in the UK power market [PDF]

Utilities Policy, 2006
Market power has been a constant theme in the history of the electricity restructuring in England and Wales. When the industry was restructured, the government created three large generating companies, two of which shared almost all the stations capable of setting prices in the industry’s centralised spot market.
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Abuse of Market Power

The Economic Journal, 2005
How should competition law deal with anti-competitive behaviour by firms with market power? In the light of recent EC and US cases, this is perhaps the most controversial current issue for competition policy. Lax policy would jeopardise the competitiveness of markets, but rigid policy would chill pro-competitive, pro-consumer conduct.
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The power of prediction markets [PDF]

Nature, 2016
Scientists are beginning to understand why these ‘mini Wall Streets’ work so well at forecasting election results — and how they sometimes fail.
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Can market power in the electricity spot market translate into market power in the hedge market? [PDF]

Energy Economics, 2016
Abstract Electricity is a non-storable commodity frequently traded in complex markets characterized by oligopolistic structures and uniform-price auctions. Electricity prices have idiosyncratic patterns not addressed by the usual commodity pricing literature.
de Braganca, Gabriel Fiuza, Daglish, Toby   +1 more
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Study on Corrosion Characteristics of HR3C in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Metals
Analyses of the oxidation characteristics of HR3C austenitic steel exposed to supercritical carbon dioxide were carried out at temperatures ranging from 600 to 650 °C under 25 MPa.
Kai Yan, Kui Liang, Shuli Zhang, Shaohai Ma, Zhongliang Zhu   +4 more
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The Market Power Measurement of Firms within the European Union [PDF]

Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2008
Market power is important because it may lead to an inefficient and bias appropriation, meanwhile worsening productive efficiency. I have used the most important indicators for measuring market power and market concentration in this paper – the Lerner ...
Claudia Dobre
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A modified distribution flow-based quadratic programming with integer variables for co-optimization of on-site generation placement and network topology in power distribution grids

Results in Engineering
This paper focuses on computing the optimum position and capacity of on-site generation (OSG) units in conjunction with grid reconfiguration in electrical distribution grids.
Nang-Van Pham, Hoai-Nam Nguyen
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Modelling Price Transmission within the Supply Chain under a European Protected Designation of Origin Framework: The Case of Parmigiano Reggiano in Italy

Social Sciences, 2019
Lately, we have witnessed how European Institutions have directed many efforts at improving the effectiveness of food quality schemes (FQS) to address the increasing complexity that has affected all elements of the operating structure of agrifood supply ...
Hugo Ferrer-Pérez, Filippo Arfini, José M. Gil   +2 more
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Market Power and Efficiency in a Computational Electricity Market with Discriminatory Double-Auction Pricing [PDF]

This study reports experimental market power and efficiency outcomes for a computational wholesale electricity market operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions.
Valentin Petrov, Leigh Tesfatsion, James Nicolaisen   +2 more
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Nord Pool: A Power Market Without Market Power [PDF]

Regulatory reform in the Nordic electricity-supply markets has resulted in a single integrated Nordic electricity market. This paper performs an econometric study of market power in the spot market of Nord Pool, the joint Nordic power exchange.
Hjalmarsson, Erik
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