This paper decomposes price into its 2 major constituents, namely markup (Mkp) and marginal cost (MC) with which a Markov-switching VAR with fixed transition probabilities is estimated. Since the proposed pair of variables has not been extensively analysed, a theoretical model that derives...

This paper extends the investigation of the stochastic properties of electricity price growth rates beyond their first two conditional moments allowing for the impact of seasonality on their parameters. The main contributions include the breakdown of electricity price risk into its pure and...

This study re-examines the risk-return relation using a contemporaneous asset pricing model under various probability distribution functions that account for skewness and kurtosis effects in the data. Once these effects are taken into account a positive risk premium is established, suggesting...