Derek Bunn

Research interest

Business forecasting, decision technology, electricity and energy economics

 Articles by this Author

Forecasting Electricity Prices

Keywords: Electricity, Volatility, Regime-switching, Structural Models
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Publication year: 2003
Co-author 1: Nektaria Karakatsani

This is a review paper documenting the main issues and recent research on modeling and forecasting electricity prices. The special market microstructure of electricity is described, as an explanation of the extraordinary stochastic properties of electricity price time series. The research literature deriving from the application of models adapted from financial assets, for both spot and forward prices, is reviewed and criticised. Final emphasis is placed upon the virtues of computationally intensive structural modeling.