Consumer participation in power market balancing

Consumer Attitudes, Expectations, and Financial Market Participation

Optimal Participation of Wind Power in the Liberalized Power Market

While installing wind power into the liberalized power market can reduce the operation and fuel costs of the power system, it also increases the imbalance cost and need for reserve. Due to this contradictory, there is a need for planning the amount of wind power in the power system. This paper proposes a model following American power market rules to find the optimal participation of wind power...

Price Deception, Market Power and Consumer Policy

This paper presents a model in which a firm attempts to gain market power by pricing above the competitive market price and simply trying to persuade illinformed consumers not to search for other lower priced firms. Fictitious price comparisons, or false sale signs could be used in this way to deceptively and profitably deter consumer search. A simplified model shows how this mechanism could ex...

Consumer Participation in Commercial Hospitality

Purpose of this paper This paper examines customers’ participation in the production of commercial hospitality. Drawing on a study of queer consumers (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals), the paper considers the ways in which frequently circulated understandings, or myths, shaped consumers’ actions. The case study is used to highlight previously under examined dimen...

Ambulant Market Foods: Consumer Problem or Solution?

  Background: The sale of food by street vendors is an activity of economic, sanitary, and nutritional importance, but these foods can pose a high risk to the health of consumers in inadequate conditions of preparation and storage. The aim of this study was to investigate the preparation conditions and the hygienic-sanitary quality of food sold by street vendors in the vicinity of four campuse...