Price formation in electricity forward markets and the relevance of systematic forecast errors
Since the liberalisation of the European electricity sector, forward and futures contracts have gained significant interest of market participants due to risk management reasons. For pricing of these contracts an important fact concerns the non-storability of electricity. In this case, according to economic theory, forward prices are related to the expected spot prices which are built on fundamental market expectations. In the following article the crucial impact parameters of forward electricity prices and the relationship between forward and future spot prices will be assessed by an empirical analysis of electricity prices at the European Energy Exchange and the Nord Pool Power Exchange. In fact, price formation in the considered markets is influenced by historic spot market prices yielding a biased forecasting power of long-term contracts. Although market and risk assessment measures of market participants and supply and demand shocks can partly explain the futures-spot bias inefficiencies in the analysed forward markets cannot be ruled out.
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2009
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Authors: | Redl, Christian ; Haas, Reinhard ; Huber, Claus ; Böhm, Bernhard |
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Energy Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0140-9883. - Vol. 31.2009, 3, p. 356-364
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Forward markets Price formation Predictive power |
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