Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126558 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 16-009
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
In electricity day-ahead markets organized as uniform price auction, a small reduction in supply in times of high demand can cause substantial increases in price. We use a unique data set of failures of generation capacity in the German-Austrian electricity market to investigate the relationship between electricity spot prices and generation failures. Differentiating between strategic and non-strategic failures, we find a positive impact of prices on non-usable marginal generation capacity for strategic failures only. Our empirical analysis therefore provides evidence for the existence of strategic capacity withholding through failures suggesting further monitoring efforts by public authorities to effectively reduce the likelihood of such abuses of a dominant position.
Subjects: 
Antitrust Policy
Market Power
Auctions
Electricity
Withholding
JEL: 
L94
L12
L41
K21
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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