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No PUN intended: A time series analysis of the Italian day-ahead electricity prices
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EUI RSCAS; 2010/03; Loyola de Palacio Programme on Energy Policy; [Florence School of Regulation]; [Energy]
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PETRELLA, Andrea, SAPIO, Sandro, No PUN intended: A time series analysis of the Italian day-ahead electricity prices, EUI RSCAS, 2010/03, Loyola de Palacio Programme on Energy Policy, [Florence School of Regulation], [Energy] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/13099
Abstract
How do changes in the market architecture affect the dynamics of deregulated electricity
prices? We investigate this issue in the context of the Italian Power Exchange
(IPEX), using data on the daily average day-ahead price (PUN) between April 2004 and
December 2008.
Estimates of baseline time series models (ARMAX and ARMAX-EGARCH) and
their forecasting performances suggest that the trend in natural gas prices, deterministic
weekly patterns, the impact of perceived temperatures, persistence in conditional
volatility and the inverse leverage effect are essential features of the PUN dynamics.
We then augment the best-performing models with dummies that account for changes
in the market architecture, such as the introduction of contracts for differences (CfDs) to
support renewables, trading of white certificates for energy efficiency, and the demandside
liberalization. The findings show that changes in the market architecture have only
affected the PUN volatility. Specifically, CfDs have mitigated volatility, while white
certificates and demand liberalization have increased it. Moreover, after controlling for
reforms the inverse leverage effect vanishes, and the persistence in volatility is lower than
in the baseline estimates.