The integration of electricity markets around the world has increased the importance of congestion between countries … the transmission cost, such as a transmission tariff, influence bidding behavior in electricity markets. It is shown that … connection tariffs, which are used in the majority of the European countries, always push up electricity prices and always hurt …

During 2004 and 2006 German wholesale electricity prices nearly doubled. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the …

the increasing exercise of market power on rising prices in the German wholesale electricity market. A successive MIP … market electricity prices. Further analysis clarifies that the price-cost margin widened substantially already in 2003. In …

of market power may lead to increased markups. We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the … impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the U.S. electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups …

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