The benefits of smoothing demand peaks in the electricity market has been widely recognised. European countries such Spain and some of the Scandinavian countries have recently given to the consumers the possibility to face the spot prices instead of having a fixed tariffs determined by...

An Stelle der gleichgewichtsorientierten, mit rationalen Erwartungen verknüpften statischen Effizienzbetrachtung wird eine dynamische Effizienzanalyse angestrebt, für die heterogene Erwartungen und Handel zu subjektiv falschen Preisen konstitutiv ist. Der konkrete Untersuchungsgegenstand ist...

The purpose of this work is to provide a critical presentation and some extensions of two perspectives of informational efficiency: On the one hand the neoclassical perspective or "arithmomorphic approach" explains efficiency in terms of a concept mainly based on an explicit economic theory. On...