| List of Tables | p. viii |
| List of Figures | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Distributional and Dynamic Features of Electricity Spot Prices | |
| Liberalized Electricity Markets Organization | p. 3 |
| The liberalization process | p. 3 |
| Spot electricity exchanges organization | p. 4 |
| Electricity derivatives markets: organized exchanges and OTC markets | p. 6 |
| Electricity Price Driving Factors | p. 8 |
| Price determination in a liberalized context | p. 8 |
| Electricity demand driving factors | p. 12 |
| Electricity supply driving factors | p. 14 |
| Electricity Spot Price Dynamics and Statistical Features | p. 19 |
| Preliminary data definitions | p. 19 |
| Detecting periodic components in electricity prices | p. 22 |
| Statistical properties of electricity prices | p. 30 |
| Electricity Spot Price Stochastic Models | |
| Electricity Modeling: General Features | p. 39 |
| Scope of a financial model | p. 39 |
| Econometric models versus purely probabilistic models | p. 40 |
| Characteristics of an ideal model and state of the art | p. 41 |
| Econometric Modeling of Electricity Prices | p. 43 |
| Traditional dynamic regression models | p. 44 |
| Transfer function models | p. 46 |
| Capturing volatility effects: GARCH models | p. 48 |
| Capturing long-memory effects in electricity price level and volatility: fractionally integrated models | p. 49 |
| Probabilistic Modeling of Electricity Prices | p. 51 |
| Traditional stochastic models | p. 52 |
| More advanced and realistic models | p. 57 |
| Semimartingales in financial modeling | p. 63 |
| Electricity Derivatives: Main Typologies and Evaluation Problems | |
| Electricity Derivatives: Main Typologies | p. 71 |
| Exchange-traded derivatives and OTC derivatives | p. 71 |
| Exotic options | p. 75 |
| Options typically embedded in electricity physical contracts | p. 79 |
| Electricity Derivatives: Valuation Problems | p. 83 |
| Derivative pricing: the traditional approach | p. 83 |
| The spot-forward price relationship in traditional and electricity markets | p. 85 |
| Non-storability and market incompleteness | p. 88 |
| Pricing and hedging in incomplete markets: basic principles | p. 89 |
| Calibrating the pricing measure | p. 92 |
| An equilibrium principle for pricing electricity assets in incomplete markets | p. 93 |
| Electricity Derivatives: Numerical Methods for Derivatives Pricing | p. 95 |
| Monte Carlo simulations | p. 95 |
| The lattice approach | p. 98 |
| Pricing electricity swaptions by means of Monte Carlo simulations | p. 104 |
| Pricing swing options by means of trinomial tree forests | p. 106 |
| Real Asset Modeling and Real Options: Theoretical Framework and Numerical Methods | |
| Financial Optimization of Power Generation Activity | p. 111 |
| Optimization problems and the real option approach | p. 111 |
| Generation asset modeling: the spark spread method | p. 116 |
| Generation asset modeling: the stochastic dynamic optimization approach | p. 117 |
| Discrete time stochastic dynamic programing | p. 123 |
| Framing and Solving the Optimization Problem | p. 127 |
| Optimization problems in a deterministic environment | p. 127 |
| Naive application of Monte Carlo methods | p. 129 |
| Solving Bellman's problem | p. 130 |
| Alternative solution methods: ordinal optimization | p. 134 |
| Generation asset modeling: numerical results | p. 136 |
| Electricity Risk Management: Risk Control Principles and Risk Measurement Techniques | |
| Risk Definition and Mapping | p. 145 |
| Market risk definition and basic principles | p. 145 |
| Different risk factors and their mapping onto the company value-creation chain | p. 146 |
| Risk and opportunity (enterprise risk attitude) | p. 150 |
| Risk Measurement Methods | p. 152 |
| Risk measures for financial trading portfolios | p. 152 |
| Risk measures for physical trading portfolios | p. 161 |
| On the coherence of risk measures | p. 163 |
| Risk-Adjusted Planning in the Electricity Industry | p. 165 |
| Production value and risk-return measures | p. 166 |
| Survival performance level and extreme market events | p. 170 |
| A practical application | p. 172 |
| Bibliography | p. 176 |
| Index | p. 179 |
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