MODELLING PRICE DYNAMICS IN TURKISH ELECTRICITY MARKET: LESSONS FROM GARCH ESTIMATES
Abstract
In this paper, we estimate electricity market volatility in Turkey using various GARCH-class models. Spot price in Turkish electricity market exhibits significant variation and therefore, conditional modelling of the volatility can make us better understand the price dynamics of this important market. We estimate volatilities of weekly prices over the period of January 2010 to April 2017 and compare the performance of various GARCH models that take into account the asymmetric effects, possible mean effects of the volatility, fat-tails of the distribution and persistence of the volatility series. We found time varying volatility is an important feature of the price dynamics in Turkish electricity market and additionally, in modelling volatility, paying attention to the extreme price changes via heavy tailed distributions improves the model fit substantially.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Economics
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
December 24, 2017
Submission Date
September 1, 2017
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2017 Volume: 39 Number: 2
