We study the problem of optimal staged purchases of electricity in time-sequential deregulated electricity markets. In … recent years, the electricity industry has been deregulated and multiple time-sequential auction markets, such as the block … forward, the day-ahead and the hour-of, and the real-time electricity markets, are formed. Thus, a load serving entity need to …

What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote … competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be … underlined with lessons from (European) electricity and railways. …

Electricity markets are prone to the abuse of market power. Several US markets employ algorithms to monitor and …