This Paper studies the private incentives and the social effects of horizontal mergers among risk-averse firms. In our model, merging firms are allowed to choose how to split their joint profits, with implications for risk sharing and strategic behaviour in the product market. If firms compete...

This paper analyses the influence of production intermittence on spot markets. We use both game theory and an adaptation of the Camerer and Ho (1999) behavioural model. Controlling for costs, we find that intermittent technologies yield lower prices when incumbents have individual market power,...

During 2006 and 2007, by means of the Royal Decree Law 3/2006, the Royal Decree 1634/2006 and the Order ITC/400/2007, several changes were introduced in the running of the wholesale electricity market in Spain. One of the objectives of these measures was to diminish the market power in the...