This paper draws on the theory of monopsony and oligopsony to develop an empirical test for the presence of the market power where an exogenous shock on the relevant market may be observed. An application of this test is demonstrated for the tomato processing industry, where the exogenous shock...

This paper presents the regional electricity demand-forecasting model developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The model forecasts electricity demand and price by sector and by state. Econometric models are estimated for each of the nine census regions separately, using pooled time-series...