Financial market has been investigated from many perspectives. The recent emerging financial network methods model the market as a network. The edge between two vertices, or two equities are modeled as the correlation coefficient of the return on the prices of two equities in a period. A common question one can pose is that how can we determine the importance of an equity in the market. From a ...

This paper examines competition in a liberalized market, with reference to some key features of the natural gas industry.. Each firm has a low (zero) marginal cost core capacity, due to long term contracts with take or pay obligations, and additional capacity at higher marginal costs. The market is decentralized and the firms decide which customers to serve, competing then in prices. We show th...

Next generation sequence data provides valuable information and tools for genetic and genomic research and offers new insights useful for marker development. This data is useful for the design of accurate and user-friendly molecular tools. Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a diverse crop in which separate domestication events happened in each gene pool followed by race and market class div...

The …nancial crisis has raised some concern about the quality of information available on some traded assets on the securities markets to market participants and regulators. Asset-backed securitization in general got partial blame for the paucity of liquidity on bank balance sheets and the consequent credit crunch. After the Asset-Backed Security (ABS) market fell to near inactivity in 2009, th...

This paper develops a system dynamics model to analyze the impacts of different kinds of capacity payment as investment incentive mechanisms in Iranian electricity market. Since it is aimed that the incurred capital and operating costs of generation technologies be recovered in Iranian electricity pool, the noncompetitive capacity payment mechanism has been introduced for this purpose in order ...

Most matching models of the marriage market assume increasing returns to scale, that is, they postulate that a larger pool of eligibles will lead to a higher marriage rate. Empirically, the difficulty in studying the cross-section relationship between the size of the marriage market and marriage behavior is that, in general, market size is endogenous. We address this issue in two ways. First, w...

Abstract In this study, we examine the efficiency and unbiasedness of Atlantic salmon futures prices. Market participants use Fish Pool market to hedge increasingly volatile spot price. We further market's predictive accuracy, comparing it a variety proprietary prediction models. Our results show that prices are efficient unbiased in long‐run, while being biased inefficient short‐run. Moreover,...

Various techniques have been implemented to include steady state security assessment in the analysis of trading in deregulated power system, however most of these techniques lack requirements of fast computational time with acceptable accuracy. The problem is compounded further by the requirements to consider bus voltages and thermal line limits. This work addresses the problem by presenting th...

In restructured electricity markets, an effective transmission pricing method is required to address transmission issues and to generate correct economic signals. Transmission line constraints can result in variations in energy prices throughout the network. These prices depend on generator bids, load levels and transmission network limitations. A congestion charge is incurred when the system i...

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