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dc.contributor.authorCLÒ, Stefano
dc.contributor.authorFUMAGALLI, Elena
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-18T09:53:38Z
dc.date.available2019-10-18T09:53:38Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationEnergy economics, 2019, Vol. 81, pp. 754-764en
dc.identifier.issn0140-9883
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/64611
dc.descriptionAvailable online: 23 May 2019
dc.description.abstractProviding adequate incentives to schedule energy programs accurately is a critical feature of liberalized electricity markets, particularly those with large shares of intermittent, renewable energy resources. In this regard, two main regulatory approaches are widely adopted in Europe. The single pricing scheme rewards or penalizes market agents according to the impact of their individual imbalances on the system imbalance. The dual pricing scheme penalizes (at best does not reward) all individual energy imbalances. This study theoretically identifies and then provides supporting empirical evidence of potential inconsistencies between market agents' balancing responsibility and the economic incentives provided by these pricing rules (de facto, opportunities for arbitrage in sequential markets). The causal effect of imbalance price regulations on the volume of the energy imbalances is investigated by exploiting a quasi-experimental change in regulation in the Italian power system. A difference-in-differences design provides robust evidence that the volume of intentional imbalances significantly decreases when moving from a single to dual pricing scheme. We conclude that the economic incentives of a dual pricing scheme are better aligned with a market agent's responsibility to be balanced and worth of further consideration from a policy perspective.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.ispartofEnergy economicsen
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Florence School of Regulation]en
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Energy]en
dc.titleThe effect of price regulation on energy imbalances : a difference in differences designen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.eneco.2019.05.008
dc.identifier.volume81en
dc.identifier.startpage754en
dc.identifier.endpage764en
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