在实施反垄断法时常常使用HHI指标来度量市场集中程度,然而当电力市场供应方之间存在地理位置和成本差异时,使用HHI指标测量市场力就会失效。本文基于区域边际定价机制,提出了一种针对电力市场的HHI型指标,并用实例说明了这种HHI型指标具有预测电力市场力的能力。
The Herfindahl Hirschmann Index (HHI) has been widely used to measure market concentration for the antitrust enforcement purpose. However, it is well realized that HHI may fail to measure market power in presence of geographic and cost differences between suppliers in restructured electricity markets. This paper proposes an extension of HHI for electricity markets using a loeational marginal pricing mechanism and demonstrates the capability of the index to predict market power in many markets based on non- cooperative game theory models.