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Market Power and Efficiency in a Computational Electricity Market With Discriminatory Double-Auction Pricing
ISU Economic Report Series
  • James Nicolaisen, Iowa State University
  • Valentin Petrov, Iowa State University
  • Leigh Tesfatsion, Iowa State University
Document Type
Report
Publication Date
4-28-2001
Number
52
Abstract
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 discriminator}- midpoint pricing. Buyers and sellers use a modified 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 eariier study in which buyers and sellers instead eng
Citation Information
James Nicolaisen, Valentin Petrov and Leigh Tesfatsion. "Market Power and Efficiency in a Computational Electricity Market With Discriminatory Double-Auction Pricing" (2001)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/leigh-tesfatsion/33/