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...

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,...