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Market Power and Efficiency in a Computational Electricity Market with Discriminatory Double-Auction Pricing

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Nicolaisen, James
Petrov, Valentin
Tesfatsion, Leigh

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This study reports experimental market power and efficiency outcomes for a computational wholesale electricity market operating in the short run under systematically varied concentration and capacity conditions. The pricing of electricity is determined by means of a clearinghouse double auction with discriminatory midpoint pricing. Buyers and sellers use a modifed Roth-Erev individual reinforcement learning algorithm to determine their price and quantity offers in each auction round. It is shown that high market efficiency is generally attained, and that market microstructure is strongly predictive for the relative market power of buyers and sellers independently of the values set for the reinforcement learning parameters. Results are briefly compared against results from an earlier electricity study in which buyers and sellers instead engage in social mimicry learning via genetic algorithms. Related work can be accessed at: http://www.econ.iastate.edu/tesfatsi/AMESMarketHome.htm

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 1952.

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Keywords: Wholesale electricity market; market power; market efficiency; mult-agent learning; agent-based test bed;

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C6 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods and Programming
C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing
D8 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
L1 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
L9 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities
Q4 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy

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