This article analyses the impact of the interplay between the demand response, wind penetration and hydropower in the Nordic power market. We develop a long-term equilibrium model in which the thermal power capacity adjusts to the zero-profit level over varying real-time pricing adoption rates...

To examine the relationship between early health status and financial decisions in adulthood, we link information on birth weight in 1966 from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort to data from the Finnish Central Securities Depository over the period of 1995-2010. We find that persons predisposed...

In this paper we study the potential effects of Real Time Pricing (RTP) of electricity to the need of long-run capacities in the Nordic power markets. A characteristic of the Nordic power market is the large variety of production technologies of which hydro and nuclear power are capacity...

Households' preferences for attributes of flexible energy demand are not well understood. This paper evaluates Finnish households' acceptance of hypothetical contracts and services aimed at increasing demand side flexibility. We conduct a Choice Experiment to analyze households' willingness to...

We compare the welfare effects of different regulation schemes of electricity distribution utilities. The compared regulation schemes are fixed price regulation, cost of service regulation, menu of cost-contingent contracts and simple menus of contracts. In our calculations we utilize the...

In this study we combine different possibilities to model firm level heterogeneity in Stochastic Frontier Analysis. We show that both observed and unobserved heterogeneity cause serious biases in inefficiency results if left unmodelled. Modelling observed and unobserved heterogeneity treats...