Activities 2006-2014

WORKSHOP: DESIGNING ELECTRICITY AUCTIONS

was arranged by the

Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Stockholm 15 – 16 September 2009

The workshop took place at Villa Källhagen, beautifully situated at Djurgården in the middle of Stockholm (www.kallhagen.se).

A group of international experts on electricity auctions met to discuss policy implications for the design of electricity auctions. Presenters included Lawrence Ausubel (U Maryland), Peter Cramton (U Maryland), Nils-Henrik von der Fehr (U Oslo), Richard Green (U Birmingham), David Newbery (U Cambridge), Shmuel Oren (UC Berkeley), Andrew Philpott (U Auckland) and Frank Wolak (Stanford U).

The Workshop was financed within the IFN research program The Economics of Electricity Markets.

Organizing committee:

Thomas Tangerås thomas.tangeras@ifn.se	Sven-Olof Fridolfsson sven-olof.fridolfsson@ifn.se
Pär Holmberg par.holmberg@ifn.se	Elisabeth Gustafsson elisabeth.gustafsson@ifn.se

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Leading Research Environment

IFN at the top

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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, is a private and independent foundation devoted to pursuing highly relevant research for trade and industry.

The researchers at IFN are united in their belief that economic methods offer a powerful tool for understanding society.

The main research programs are:

economics of entrepreneurship
globalization and corporate restructuring
economics of the service sector
economics of the electricity markets
economics of institutions and culture.