A Regime Switching Long Memory Model for Electricity Prices

Niels Haldrup () and Morten Nielsen

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University

Abstract: In this paper we develop a regime switching model which can generate long memory (fractional integration) in each of the regime states. This property is relevant in a number of cases. For instance, the deregulated market for electricity power in the Nordic countries is characterized by electricity spot prices with a high degree of long memory. It occurs that in some time periods bilateral prices are identical whereas in other periods the prices differ. The latter occurs when a capacity congestion exists across regions and multiple price areas will result. If the price series are fractionally integrated this means that in some regimes, an extreme form of fractional cointegration amongst prices will exist. We define a Markov switching fractional integration model from which the fractional orders of integration in separate states can be estimated using Maximum Likelihood techniques. The model is adapted to data for the Nordic electricity spot market, and we find that regime swithing and long memory are empirically relevant to co-exist. In particular, we find that the price behaviour for single markets can be very different depending upon the presence or absence of bottlenecks in electricity transmission. Using Monte Carlo forecasting we find that the regime switching model appears to be especially attractive in forecasting relative prices.

Keywords: Cointegration; electricity prices; forecasting; fractional integration and cointegration; ong memory; Markov switching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 C22 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2004-04-02
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