Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82749 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2004:20
Publisher: 
Uppsala University, Department of Economics, Uppsala
Abstract: 
Consider a market where producers submit supply functions to a procurement auction — e.g. an electric power auction — under uncertainty, before demand has been realized. In the Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE), every firm commits to the supply function maximizing his expected profit given the supply functions of the competitors. The presence of multiple equilibria is one basic weakness of SFE. This paper shows that with (i) symmetric producers, (ii) inelastic demand, (iii) a reservation price, and (iiii) capacity constraints that bind with a positive probability, there is a unique symmetric SFE.
Subjects: 
Supply function equilibrium
auction
oligopoly
capacity constraint
wholesale electricity market
JEL: 
D43
D44
L11
L13
L94
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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