The ambitious EU 2050 decarbonization strategy needs to implement and reconcile several economic, social and technological targets, such as continuous prosperity growth, increase of energy productivity, diffusion of renewable energy sources (RES), dynamic competition in the energy mix toward...

In this paper we investigate wholesale electricity prices integration process in the main European markets. After reforms introduced in the last decades in Europe, wholesale electricity prices are now determined in regulated markets. However, while market institutional frameworks show several...

This paper investigates the degree of integration among markets using wholesale electricity prices. The reason arises from the link between the long-run dynamic of fuel prices and electricity prices. We address the question of whether European electricity markets have experienced convergence...