Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

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Uppsala University, Department of Economics

No 2005:16: Asymmetric Supply Function Equilibrium with Constant Marginal Costs

Pär Holmberg ()
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Pär Holmberg: Department of Economics, Postal: Uppsala University, P.O. Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract: In a real-time electric power auction, the bids of producers consist of committed supply as a function of price. The bids are submitted under uncertainty, before the demand by the Independent System Operator has been realized. In the Supply Function Equilibrium (SFE), every producer chooses the supply function maximizing his expected profit given his residual demand. I consider a uniform-price auction with a reservation price, where demand is inelastic and exceed the market capacity with a positive probability, and firms have identical constant marginal costs but asymmetric capacities. I show that under these conditions, there is a unique SFE, which is piece-wise symmetric.

Keywords: supply function equilibrium; uniform-price auction; uniqueness; asymmetry; oligopoly; capacity constraint; wholesale electricity market

JEL-codes: C62; D43; D44; L11; L13; L94

27 pages, April 18, 2005

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