This article measures the market power in the loan and deposit markets in banking industry of Iran, including 10 state-owned and 4 private banks, during 1380-1389 (2001-2010) based on the evaluating of Lerner indices. To achieving this objective, a stochastic frontier cost function has been applied then market power was calculated. The main results of paper show over the observed period althoug...

In a daily power market, price and load forecasting is the most important signal for the market participants. In this paper, an accurate feed-forward neural network model with a genetic optimization levenberg-marquardt back propagation (LMBP) training algorithm is employed for short-term nodal congestion price forecasting in different zones of a large-scale power market. The use of genetic algo...

Following the rise of the fuels that power plants consume in the deregulated market, an increase in the electricity prices would be expected. This article tries to study the effects of power plants’ fuel prices adjustment on the amount of increase in electricity prices in the market. The components of the deregulated power market were modeled in the systems dynamics method with the aim of findi...

Policy makers need to be acquainted with market competition statue. it would ease the decision making and restructuring of market. The aim of this study is to measure the competition of the wholesale electricity market and then investigate the impact of market power on wholesale electricity price during 2013 to 2017. The Result shows that market share of P.U.s in the wholesale electricity marke...

Policy makers need to be acquainted with market competition statue. it would ease the decision making and restructuring of market. The aim of this study is to measure the competition of the wholesale electricity market and then investigate the impact of market power on wholesale electricity price during 2013 to 2017. The Result shows that market share of P.U.s in the wholesale electricity marke...

It is essential to enact restrictive laws and impose penalties for private sector participants when they play an important role in different sectors of production and trading of commodities. These laws and penalties reduce antitrust activities and protect participants against illegal activities. Therefore, the study and recognition of legal and economic issues related to the competition in diff...