Pär Holmberg"s research focuses on electricity markets, especially strategic bidding behaviour in electricity auctions.
Recent publications
"Optimal Capacity Mechanisms for Competitive Electricity Markets", (with Robert A. Ritz), The Energy Journal. (forthcoming).
"Simulation and evaluation of zonal electricity market designs", (with Mahir Sarfati), Electric Power Systems Research, Vol. 185, 2020.
"Production efficiency of nodal and zonal pricing in imperfectly competitive electricity markets", Energy Strategy Reviews, (with Mohammed Reza Hesamzadeh and Mahir Sarfati), Vol. 24, 2019, pp. 193-206.
"Comparing auction designs where suppliers have uncertain costs and uncertain pivotal status", (with Frank Wolak), Rand Journal of Economics 49, 2018, pp. 995-1027.
"On supply-function equilibria in radial transmission networks", (with Andrew Philpott), European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 271, 2018, pp. 985-1000.
"Price instability in multi-unit auctions", (with Edward Anderson), Journal of Economic Theory 175, 2018, pp. 318-341.
"Pro-competitive rationing in multi-unit auctions", Economic Journal 127(605), 2017, pp. F372-F395.
"Relaxing Competition through Speculation: Committing to a Negative Supply Slope", (with Bert Willems), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 159, 2015, pp. 236-266.
"Comparison of congestion management techniques: Nodal, zonal and discriminatory pricing", (with Ewa Lazarczyk), Energy Journal, Vol. 36, 2015, pp. 145-166.
"Supply Function Equilibria: Step Functions and Continuous Representations", (with David Newbery och Daniel Ralph), Journal of Economic Theory, Vol. 148, 2013, pp. 1509-1551.
"Mixed Strategies in Discriminatory Divisible-good Auctions", (with Edward Anderson och Andrew Philpott), Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, 2013, pp. 1-32.
"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
"Increase-decrease game under imperfect competition in two-stage zonal power markets - Part 1: Concept analysis", (with Mohammed Reza Hesamzadeh and Mahir Sarfati), IFN Working Paper 1253.
"Increase-decrease game under imperfect competition in two-stage zonal power markets - Part II: Solution algorithm", (with Mohammed Reza Hesamzadeh and Mahir Sarfati), IFN Working Paper 1254.
"Central- versus Self-Dispatch in Electricity Markets", (with Victor Ahlqvist and Thomas Tangerås), IFN Working Paper 1257.
Media
"A minor change in market trading rules could save taxpayers billions of dollars", LSE Business Review, November 29, 2017.
Presentations
"Supply Function Equilibria in Networks with Transport Constraints", Economics of Energy Markets conference in Toulouse, January 17, 2013.