We demonstrate how the problem of determining the ask price for electricity swing options can be considered as a stochastic bilevel program with asymmetric information. Unlike as for financial options, there is no way for basing the pricing method on no-arbitrage arguments. Two main situations...

Multi-period risk functionals assign a risk value to discrete-time stochastic processes. While convexity and monotonicity extend in straightforward manner from the single-period case, the role of information is more problematic in the multi-period situation. In this paper, we define multi-period...

In the present paper we demonstrate a mid-term planning model for thermal power generation which is based on multistage stochastic optimization and involves stochastic electricity spot prices, mixture of fuels with stochastic prices, the effect of CO2 emission prices and various types of further...

By an adaptation of a method originally invented by G. Kersting [1] for the calculation of the limiting distribution of Markovian processes the central limit theorem (CLT) is proven. Only the case of equal variances is considered.

The contour process of a random binary tree t with n internal nodes is defined as the polygonal function constructed from the heights of the leaves of t (normalized by ). We show that, as n --> [infinity], the limiting contour process is identical in distribution to a Brownian excursion.