Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82711 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2005:16
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
In a real-time electric power auction, the bids of producers consist of committed supply as a function of price. The bids are submitted under uncertainty, before the demand by the Independent System Operator has been realized. In the Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE), every producer chooses the supply function maximizing his expected profit given his residual demand. I consider a uniform-price auction with a reservation price, where demand is inelastic and exceed the market capacity with a positive probability, and firms have identical constant marginal costs but asymmetric capacities. I show that under these conditions, there is a unique SFE, which is piece-wise symmetric.
Subjects: 
supply function equilibrium
uniform-price auction
uniqueness
asymmetry
oligopoly
capacity constraint
wholesale electricity market
JEL: 
C62
D43
D44
L11
L13
L94
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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