Pär Holmberg has a PhD in Economics and a PhD in Electric Power Engineering. His research focuses on electricity markets, especially strategic bidding behaviour in electricity auctions.

Recent publications

"The Supply Function Equilibrium and Its Policy Implications for Wholesale Electricity Auctions", (with David Newbery). Forthcoming in Utilities Policy.

"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

Mixed Strategies in Discriminatory Divisible-good Auctions,  IFN Working Paper 814 (with Edward Anderson and Andrew Philpott).

 Supply Function Equilibria: Step Functions and Continuous Representations, IFN Working Paper 788, (with David Newbery and Daniel Ralph).

Game-theoretical, Strategic Forward Contracting in the Electricity Market, IFN Working Paper 756.