Pricing behaviour under competition in the UK electricity supply industry

Competition in Retail Electricity Supply

Pricing Games under Uncertain Competition

The last decade has seen a tremendous growth in wireless networks, resulting in a proportionate increase in demand for spectrum. But spectrum is limited, which has led to the design of techniques such as Cognitive Radio Technology [2], for using the available spectrum more efficiently. In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), there are two types of spectrum users: (i) a primary user who leases a cer...

The New Electricity Supply Industry in Argentina and Chile

For a hundred of years electricity and its delivery were thought to be inseparable. Since the late-1980s and early-1990s things began to change. Due to diverse reasons [13] both developed and developing countries began to abandon the idea of an electricity industry vertically integrated to adopt a new model that allows competition and choice in electricity. The idea of commercial separation of ...

Responsive pricing under supply uncertainty

Price Competition under Limited Supply

This note investigates the standard Bertrand-Edgeworth duopolistic competition in which two firms sell a homogenous good and have an identical capacity constraint. We examine three firstcome, first-served rationing rules: a) high-to-low rationing where customers arrive in decreasing order of willingness to pay, b) proportional rationing where customer arrivals are independent of willingness to ...