Price spikes are of particular importance due to their severe impacts on consumers, businesses and industry. They constitute a major source of price risk to market participants, e.g., electricity retailers with commitments to meet customers' daily electricity demands. To those trading in several...

Tail dependence characterizes cross market linkages during periods of extreme price behavior. Analyzing tail dependence can richly inform market participants, in particular those operating across several markets how to understand price risk. A copula approach is therefore employed to assess the...

The efficient market hypothesis states that an efficient market incorporates all available information to provide an accurate valuation of an asset at any given time. Most trading models rely only on numerical information such as return, volatility, and volume to forecast the value of an asset....

An important issue in fitting stochastic models to electricity spot prices is the estimation of a component to deal with trends and seasonality in the data. Unfortunately, estimation routines for the long-term and short-term seasonal pattern are usually quite sensitive to extreme observations,...