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Market Power In The Spanish Wholesale Electricity Market

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Aitor Ciarreta (Universidad de Alicante)
María Paz Espinosa (Universidad del País Vasco)
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In the context of the recent electricity market reforms in Europe and the US, we evaluate the performance of the Spanish pool. Our method is not based on price-cost estimates but rather on the different behavior of operators with higher market power as compared to the behavior of more competitive operators. Our results indicate that the two larger operators in the market are able to increase prices by a significant amount as compared to the situation in which each plant is run independently.

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Paper provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie) in its series Working Papers. Serie AD with number 2003-22.

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  1. Vitor Marques & Isabel Soares & Adelino Fortunato, 2008. "Measuring market power in the Iberian electricity wholesale market through the residual demand curve," CETE Discussion Papers 0801, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Ciro Eduardo Bazán Navarro, 2004. "Análisis de la competencia en un mercado mayorista de electricidad: el caso de España," Documentos de trabajo conjunto ULL-ULPGC 2004-04, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la ULPGC. [Downloadable!]
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