European closing auction volumes increased heavily over the past years, in particular sincethe introduction of MiFID II in 2018. We show that this increase in closing auction volumesince 2018 is driven by an increase in limit order volume and that it contributes to moreefficient price formation....

This work presents a novel method for generating electricity price scenarios from statistical properties of past electricity prices using a hybrid statistical and reduced-form stochastic model. Previous work in applying stochastic differential equations (SDE) to model electricity prices has...

About 23% of public procurement contracts in the European Union are awarded to the only firm that submitted a bid. The market of public procurement contracts is worth about one seventh of GDP in developed countries, which makes any inefficiencies on this market a first-order problem. In this...

Ideally a new reform of the EU trade regime for bananas (COMB) should be equipped in a way that it makes a long-term contribution to the realisation of sustainable goals, or at least does not prevent them. From a point of view of sustainable development, a trade restriction measure has to...