Pär Holmberg"s research focuses on electricity markets, especially strategic bidding behaviour in electricity auctions.
Recent publications
"Supply Function Equilibria: Step Functions and Continuous Representations", (with David Newbery and Daniel Ralph), Journal of Economic Theory (forthcoming)
"Mixed Strategies in Discriminatory Divisible-good Auctions", (with Edward Anderson and Andrew Philpott), Rand Journal of Economics (forthcoming)
"Strategic Forward Contracting in the Wholesale Electricity Market", Energy Journal, Vol. 31, 2011, pp. 169-202.
"The Supply Function Equilibrium and Its Policy Implications for Wholesale Electricity Auctions", (with David Newbery), Utilities Policy, Vol. 18, 2010, pp. 209-226.
"Supply Function Equilibria of Pay-as-Bid Auctions", Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 36, 2009, pp. 154-177.
"Numerical calculation of asymmetric supply function equilibrium with capacity constraints”, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 199, 2009, pp. 285-295.
"Unique Supply Function Equilibrium with Capacity Constraints", Energy Economics, Vol. 30, Issue 1, January 2008, pp. 148-172.
"Supply Function Equilibrium with Asymmetric Capacities and Constant Marginal Costs", Energy Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2007, pp. 55-82.
"Some inequalities related to electricity auctions”, (with P. Hästö), Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol. 19, No. 8 , August 2006, pp. 814-819.
Working papers
"Supply Function Equilibria in Networks with Transport Constraints" , IFN Working Paper 945, (with Andrew Philpott).
"Relaxing Competition through Speculation: Committing to a Negative Supply Slope" , IFN Working Paper 937, (with Bert Willems).
"Congestion management in electricity networks: Nodal, zonal and discriminatory pricing", IFN Working Paper 915, (with Ewa Lazarczyk).
Presentations
"Supply Function Equilibria in Networks with Transport Constraints", Economics of Energy Markets conference in Toulouse, January 17, 2013.