Bilateral Market Power and Vertical Integration in the Spanish Electricity Spot Market

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Kai-Uwe Kuhn

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); University of East Anglia (UEA) - Centre for Competition Policy

Matilde Pinto Machado

Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Economics

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Date Written: July 2004

Abstract

The Spanish Electricity spot market is highly concentrated on the seller and the buyer side. Furthermore, unlike electricity spot markets in other deregulated systems, large buyers and sellers are typically vertically integrated. This allows both large net sellers and large net buyers to strategically influence the spot market price. We develop a supply function model of this market to analyze the impact of market power on prices and productive efficiency and use it empirically to detect such bilateral market power. Our estimates suggest that market power has had little impact on spot market prices but that substantial productive inefficiencies arise from the exercise of bilateral market power.

Keywords: Market power test, vertical integration, electricity markets, supply function equilibrium

JEL Classification: L13, L41, L94

Suggested Citation

Kuhn, Kai-Uwe and Kuhn, Kai-Uwe and Machado, Matilde P, Bilateral Market Power and Vertical Integration in the Spanish Electricity Spot Market (July 2004). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=601061 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.601061

Kai-Uwe Kuhn (Contact Author)

Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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University of East Anglia (UEA) - Centre for Competition Policy ( email )

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Matilde P Machado

Charles III University of Madrid - Department of Economics ( email )

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Spain
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