A long-term/short-term model for daily electricity prices with dynamic volatility

Stephan Schlueter

Energy Economics, 2010, vol. 32, issue 5, 1074-1081

Abstract: In this paper we introduce a new stochastic long-term/short-term model for short-term electricity prices, and apply it to four major European indices, namely to the German, Dutch, UK and Nordic one. We give evidence that all time series contain certain periodic (mostly annual) patterns, and show how to use the wavelet transform, a tool of multiresolution analysis, for filtering purpose. The wavelet transform is also applied to separate the long-term trend from the short-term oscillation in the seasonal-adjusted log-prices. In all time series we find evidence for dynamic volatility, which we incorporate by using a bivariate GARCH model with constant correlation. Eventually we fit various models from the existing literature to the data, and come to the conclusion that our approach performs best. For the error distribution, the Normal Inverse Gaussian distribution shows the best fit.

Keywords: Electricity; price; model; Wavelets; Seasonal; filter; Relative; wavelet; energy; Multivariate; GARCH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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