vehicle characteristics to present RD estimates of reserve price effects on auction outcomes. Our first set of results show … that, in line with the robust predictions of auction theory, an increase in reserve price decreases the number of bidders …, increases the likelihood the object remains unsold, and increases expected revenue conditional on sale. Reserve price effects …

became physically integrated. The oil-linked Continental gas price became dominant, due to both the large volume of the … opening up of the Interconnector (1998) the UK gas market had neither government price regulation nor a physical Continental … oil and electricity, took place. Using monthly price data, we find a highly integrated market where wholesale demand seems …

This paper provides a textbook example of integration between commodity markets, and the subsequent price convergence … or absence thereof. We analyze price relations between spot markets for natural gas in Europe. We apply time …-varying coefficient estimation applying the Kalman filter, to test whether price convergence between different locations is really taking …