Este trabajo investiga el comportamiento de los precios en el mercado eléctrico español durante el período de liberalización (entre el 29 de junio de 2001 y el 1 de mayo de 2007). El documento tiene un doble objetivo: por un lado, realizar un análisis descriptivo del comportamiento de las...

This article investigates linear and nonlinear causality between electricity consumption and economic growth in Spain for the period 1971 to 2005. We use the methodology of Toda and Yamamoto (1995) and Dolado and Lutkepohl (1996). We also apply the standard Granger causality test in a vector...

This paper applies recent panel methodology to investigate the long-run and causal relationship between electricity consumption and real GDP for a set of 12 European countries using annual data for the period 1970-2007. The sample countries have moved faster than other neighboring countries...

A direct test of the mixture-of-distributions model is conducted using daily Spanish stock return and trading volume for the period April 1990 to January 1996. Both the standard mixture-of-distributions model of Tauchen and Pitts (1983) and the modified version proposed by Andersen (1996) are...

This article tests for the existence of features shared in common by daily stock returns and trading volume contributing to the empirical analysis of the relation between those series. Using Spanish data this study analyses this hypothesis looking at features such as seasonality, skewness,...

In this paper we check whether generators' bid behavior at the Spanish wholesale electricity market is consistent with the hypothesis of pro?fit maximization on their residual demands. Using OMEL data, we ?find the arc-elasticity of the residual demand around the system marginal price. The...

The European Commission Report on Competition in Professional Services found that recommended prices by professional bodies have a significant negative effect on competition since they may facilitate the coordination of prices between service providers and/or mislead consumers about reasonable...