Price spikes are of particular importance due to their severe impacts on consumers, businesses and industry. They constitute a major source of price risk to market participants, e.g., electricity retailers with commitments to meet customers' daily electricity demands. To those trading in several...

Tail dependence characterizes cross market linkages during periods of extreme price behavior. Analyzing tail dependence can richly inform market participants, in particular those operating across several markets how to understand price risk. A copula approach is therefore employed to assess the...