This chapter illustrates a mechanism capable of competitively allocating power through an electricity network in which loop flow and the unusual economic phenomenon caused by loop flow are anticipated and integrated into the competitive process. At the base of the complexity is Kirchoff's law...

This outstanding collection spanning three decades comprises a superb selection of Charles R. Plott's work in experimental economics. Market Institutions and Price Discovery contains papers which define problems, create laboratory methodology and produce the first results in many areas of...