Par Holmberg

Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

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Congestion Management in Electricity Networks: Nodal, Zonal and Discriminatory Pricing

IFN Working Paper No. 915
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 May 2012
Par Holmberg and Ewa Lazarczyk
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Reykjavik University, School of Business
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congestion management, wholesale electricity market, transmission network, nodal pricing, zonal pricing with countertrading, discriminatory pricing, large game

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Electricity Markets: Designing Auctions Where Suppliers Have Uncertain Costs

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Electricity Markets: Designing Auctions Where Suppliers Have Uncertain Costs

USAEE Working Paper No. 16-251
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Mar 2016
Par Holmberg and Frank Wolak
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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cost uncertainty, asymmetric information, uniform-price auction, discriminatory pricing, Bertrand game, market transparency, wholesale electricity market, treasury auction, Bayesian Nash equilibria

Electricity Markets: Designing Auctions Where Suppliers Have Uncertain Costs

IFN Working Paper No. 1099
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2016
Par Holmberg and Frank Wolak
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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cost uncertainty, asymmetric information, uniform-price auction, discriminatory pricing, Bertrand game, market transparency, wholesale electricity market, treasury auction, Bayesian Nash equilibria

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Central- versus Self-Dispatch in Electricity Markets

IFN Working Paper No. 1257, 2018
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jan 2019
Victor Ahlqvist, Par Holmberg and Thomas Tangerås
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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wholesale electricity markets, market clearing, centralization, decentralization, unit-commitment, self-dispatch

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The Supply Function Equilibrium and its Policy Implications for Wholesale Electricity Auctions

IFN Working Paper No. 812
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Sep 2010
Par Holmberg and David M. G. Newbery
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and University of Cambridge - Department of Applied Economics
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Wholesale Electricity Markets, Supply Function Equilibria, Competition Policy

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Relaxing Competition Through Speculation: Committing to a Negative Supply Slope

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Relaxing Competition Through Speculation: Committing to a Negative Supply Slope

IFN Working Paper No. 937
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2012
Par Holmberg and Bert Willems
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and UCLouvain - LIDAM / CORE
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supply function equilibrium, option contracts, strategic commitment, speculation

Relaxing Competition Through Speculation: Committing to a Negative Supply Slope

TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2012-039, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-088
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Nov 2012
Par Holmberg and Bert Willems
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and UCLouvain - LIDAM / CORE
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supply function equilibrium, option contracts, strategic commitment

Relaxing Competition Through Speculation: Committing to a Negative Supply Slope

Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 159, No. A, 2015
Posted: 21 Apr 2018
Par Holmberg and Bert Willems
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and UCLouvain - LIDAM / CORE

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Supply Function Equilibrium, Option Contracts, Strategic Commitment

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Supply Function Equilibria: Step Functions and Continuous Representations

IFN Working Paper No. 788
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 Sep 2010
Par Holmberg, David M. G. Newbery and Daniel Ralph
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), University of Cambridge - Department of Applied Economics and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Auctions, supply function equilibria, convergence of step-functions

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Increase-Decrease Game under Imperfect Competition in Two-stage Zonal Power Markets – Part II: Solution Algorithm

IFN Working Paper No. 1254
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Dec 2018
Mahir Sarfati, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh and Par Holmberg
IFN, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) - Electricity Market Research Group (EMReG) and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Modified Benders decomposition, Multiple Subgame Perfect Nash equilibria, Parallel computing, Wholesale electricity market, Zonal pricing

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Supply Function Equilibria in Networks with Transport Constraints

IFN Working Paper No. 945
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 19 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2015
Par Holmberg and Andrew Philpott
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and University of Auckland - Department of Engineering Science
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Oligopoly market, Divisible-good auction, Transmission network, Graph theory, Market integration, Wholesale electricity markets

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Price Instability in Multi-Unit Auctions

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Price Instability in Multi-Unit Auctions

USAEE Working Paper No. 250
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 24 Mar 2016
Edward J. Anderson and Par Holmberg
University of Sydney Business School and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Multi-unit auctions, indivisible unit, price instability, Bayesian Nash equilibria, supply function equilibria, convergence of Nash equilibria, wholesale electricity markets

Price Instability in Multi-Unit Auctions

IFN Working Paper No. 1095
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Dec 2015
Edward J. Anderson and Par Holmberg
University of Sydney Business School and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Multi-unit auctions, indivisible unit, price instability, Bayesian Nash equilibria, supply function equilibria, convergence of Nash equilibria, wholesale electricity markets

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Game-Theoretical, Strategic Forward Contracting in the Electricity Market

IFN Working Paper No. 756
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2015
Par Holmberg
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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supply function equilibrium, forward market, strategic contracting, arbitrage, strategic substitutes, oligopoly, electricity market

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Increase-Decrease Game Under Imperfect Competition in Two-stage Zonal Power Markets – Part I: Concept Analysis

IFN Working Paper No. 1253
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 06 Dec 2018
Mahir Sarfati, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh and Par Holmberg
IFN, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) - Electricity Market Research Group (EMReG) and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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two-stage game, zonal pricing, two-stage equilibrium problem with equilibrium constraints, wholesale electricity market

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Supply Function Equilibria of Pay-as-Bid Auctions

IFN Working Paper No. 787
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 24 Sep 2010
Par Holmberg
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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supply function equilibrium, pay-as-bid auction, discriminatory auction, divisible good auction, oligopoly, electricity market

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Production Efficiency of Nodal and Zonal Pricing in Imperfectly Competitive Electricity Markets

IFN Working Paper No. 1264, 2019
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Aug 2020
Mahir Sarfati, Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh and Par Holmberg
IFN, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) - Electricity Market Research Group (EMReG) and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Congestion Management, Zonal Pricing, Flow-Based Market Coupling

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Simulation and Evaluation of Zonal Electricity Market Designs

IFN Working Paper No. 1211
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 May 2018
Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh, Par Holmberg and Mahir Sarfati
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and IFN
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Capacity Mechanisms and the Technology Mix in Competitive Electricity Markets

IFN Working Paper No. 1292, 2019
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Aug 2020
Par Holmberg and Robert A. Ritz
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Investment, wholesale electricity market, capacity mechanism, capacity auction, strategic reserve

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Mixed Strategies in Discriminatory Divisible-Good Auctions

IFN Working Paper No. 814
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 22 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2011
Edward J. Anderson, Par Holmberg and Andrew Philpott
University of Sydney Business School, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN) and University of Auckland - Department of Engineering Science
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Pay-as-Bid Auction, Divisible Good Auction, Mixed Strategy Equilibria, Wholesale Electricity Markets

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Multi-Unit Auctions with Uncertain Supply and Single-Unit Demand

IFN Working Paper No. 1460
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 02 Dec 2024
Edward J. Anderson and Par Holmberg
University of Sydney Business School and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Multi-unit auction, single-unit demand, uniform pricing, pay-asbid, asymmetric information, Publicity effect

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The Inc-Dec Game and How to Mitigate It

IFN Working Paper No. 1512
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Dec 2024
Par Holmberg
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Congestion management, zonal pricing, countertrading, redispatch, real-time market, regulatory arbitrage, Inc-dec game

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Pro-Competitive Rationing in Multi-Unit Auctions

IFN Working Paper No. 1037
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Aug 2014
Par Holmberg
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Divisible-good auctions, multi-unit auctions, rationing rules, bidding format