Analysis of market power in electricity markets is relevant for understanding the competitive development of the industry's restructuring and liberalization process. Because the existing literature lacks adequate consideration of line transmission congestion, this paper sets forth a new approach...

As an essential component for economic growth, energy has a significant impact on the global economy. The need to meet growing energy demand has prompted cutting-edge innovation in clean technology in an attempt to realise environmental and cost objectives, whilst ensuring the security of energy...

This paper investigates the existence of contagion effects in electricity markets. The concept of contagion has been developed for high frequency financial markets, see the World Bank definition(Word Bank, 2000). Following Pick (2005) and Pesaran - Pick (2007) the paper presents a canonical,...