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The Supply Function Equilibrium and its Policy Implications for Wholesale Electricity Auctions
Holmberg, Par - 2011
The supply function equilibrium provides a game-theoretic model of strategic bidding in oligopolistic wholesale electricity auctions. This paper presents an intuitive account of current understanding and shows how welfare losses depend on the number of firms in the market and their asymmetry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132898
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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2011
market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are … ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014047752
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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - 2010
industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past - globalization may improve the … the industry level or measures of domestic anti-competitive regulations and product market competition. In addition, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320315
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Global Engagement and the Occupational Structure of Firms
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; … - 2014
. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144843
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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2008
market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are … ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320130
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When More Poor Means Less Poverty : On Income Inequality and Purchasing Power
Bergh, Andreas - 2012
We show theoretically that the poor can benefit from price changes induced by higher income inequality. As the number of poor in a society increases, or when the income difference between rich and poor increases, the market for products aimed towards the poor grows and such products become more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107248
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The interplay between money market development and changes in monetary policy operations in small European countries, 1980 - 2000
Forssbæck, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - 2007
market-based instruments. The process of financial deregulation is uniform across the countries. The path of money market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335629
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The Transition to Marked-Based Monetary Policy: What Can China Learn from the European Experience?
Oxelheim, Lars; Forssbæck, Jens - 2007
We discuss the prospects for Chinese money market development and transition to market-based monetary policy operations based on a comparative historical analysis of the present Chinese situation and the development in 11 European countries from 1979 up to the launch of European Economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320150
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Market Power in the Nordic Wholesale Electricity Market: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Tangerås, Thomas - 2008
We review the recent empirical research concerning market power on the Nordic wholesale market for electricity, Nord Pool. There is no evidence of blatant and systematic exploitation of system level market power on Nord Pool. However, generation companies seem from time to time able to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320387
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Central- versus Self-Dispatch in Electricity Markets
Ahlqvist, Victor - 2019
In centralized markets, producers submit detailed cost data to the day-ahead market, and the market operator decides how much should be produced in each plant. This differs from decentralized markets that rely on self-commitment and where producers send less detailed cost information to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896677