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I. INTRODUCTION
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PSCE2006
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1000
(a1)
(b1)
500
-2
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6000
(a2)
4000
(b2)
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800
60
(b3)
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0
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-4
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600
(a5)
400
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-0.5
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3000
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-4
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0
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-2
Fig. 1. Victorian daily prices and returns for peak time of year 2001-2004. From (a1) to (a5) are daily average prices, daily maximum prices, daily minimum
prices, daily mid-point prices and daily median prices. (b1) (b5) are the corresponding returns calculated from (a1) (a5).
C. Seasonal
Electricity demand that reflects the trend and pattern in
electricity consumption is one of the fundamental drivers of
electricity spot price. Therefore, electricity spot price,
depending on the demand level, presents the following
patterns: day pattern, characterized by the time of day; week
pattern, characterized by working vs non-working says; and
year pattern, characterized by the seasons. It tends to go up
at peak hours, on working days and at times with extreme
weather conditions, such as exceptionally cold/hot days in
winter/summer.
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TABLE I TIME-VARYING SKEWNESS IN VICTORIAN DAILY PEAK ELECTRICITY SPOT PRICES OF YEAR 2001 -2004
2001
2002
Mean
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
-0.02
0.01
-0.02
0.03
-0.01
-0.02
0.00
0.00
-0.01
0.02
-0.02
0.00
0.72
1.23
0.15
0.20
0.22
0.11
0.11
0.59
0.09
0.24
0.31
0.62
Kurtosis
0.80
3.07
-0.38
-1.25
4.22
2.58
-0.01
10.39
-0.87
2.79
7.14
6.20
Skewness
0.17
-1.16
-0.98
0.17
-1.56
1.24
0.46
0.34
-0.24
0.68
0.24
-0.59
-0.02
Mean
0.03
-0.02
0.00
0.01
0.02
0.01
-0.02
-0.01
0.00
-0.01
0.02
Std
0.20
0.26
0.27
0.13
0.86
0.72
0.83
0.15
0.13
0.18
0.34
0.53
Kurtosis
1.14
2.03
3.40
-0.53
2.07
1.13
3.34
-0.25
0.31
-1.07
1.90
1.36
Mean
Std
Kurtosis
Skewness
2004
Feb
Std
Skewness
2003
Jan
Mean
Std
Kurtosis
Skewness
0.73
-0.98
0.98
-0.51
0.46
0.64
0.83
0.73
0.95
0.06
1.17
0.89
-0.01
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
-0.01
0.02
-0.02
0.00
0.00
0.02
-0.01
0.55
0.25
0.55
0.12
0.37
0.87
0.51
0.26
0.23
0.20
0.19
0.39
-0.10
2.32
7.78
0.49
6.59
6.99
10.21
3.51
0.50
-0.09
-0.20
-0.37
0.65
1.10
-1.96
0.86
1.32
1.00
2.15
0.82
0.40
-0.58
0.68
-0.24
-0.02
0.01
0.01
0.02
0.01
0.00
-0.01
-0.01
0.00
0.02
0.07
-0.09
0.38
0.71
0.22
0.28
0.40
0.16
0.66
0.12
0.17
0.67
0.26
0.35
-0.45
8.63
-1.23
2.70
3.89
-1.06
9.01
0.16
1.24
8.41
2.25
9.85
0.42
-1.89
-0.12
1.35
0.03
-0.32
0.25
-0.21
0.10
-1.92
1.15
-2.86
3.00
2.00
1.00
dS = ( x ln S ) Sdt + Sdz
(2)
0.00
-1.00
-2.00
-3.00
STD
-4.00
Skew ness
dx = [ ( x x) 12 2 ]dt + dz
(3)
(4)
(1)
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(5)
dx = [ ( x k x ) 12 2 ]dt + dz + kdq
x (t ) = x1 + ( x 0 x1 )e ( t t 0 ) + e (t u ) dz (u ) (6)
t0
x i +1 = x 2 + ( x 2 xi ) t + t i +
(7)
VARt [ x(t )] = 2 (1 e2 )
(8)
2 2
3
x t = c + ax t 1 + t
(14)
(15)
(11)
j =1
A. Parameter Estimation
In this section, we use the historical data of daily returns
to approximate the parameters for the simulation. Since the
purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between
skewness and the existence of the price spikes, the
parameters estimated here are mainly to serve this purpose
rather than for forecasting. The reason we simulate through
estimated parameters is that the simulated data will be more
realistic and closer to the real market data. Estimation can
be divided into two parts: estimation of mean reversion rate
and estimation of jump parameters. The data used for the
estimation is the daily spot return calculated as log price
difference from Victoria daily average peak price from
2001 and 2004. Peak price refers to spot price between 7am
and 10pm on weekdays excluding public holidays
(approximately 252 days per year).
Mean reversion rate can be obtained by estimating the
following AR(1) process:
1/ 2 (e 3 1)(1 e 2 ) 2 / 3 (9)
xi +1 = x1 + ( x1 xi )t + t i +1
(k +
and skewness
Skewt [ x(t )] =
N ( t )
and variance
2
(13)
(12)
= ln a = 0.4232
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0.60
0.40
TABLE II.
ITERATIVE ESTIMATION OF JUMP PARAMETERS FOR RETURNS
CALCULATED FROM VICTORIA PEAK HOUR DAILY AVERAGE PRICE
Skewness
Step
0.20
0.00
-0.20
0.0009
0.445
0.099
2.013
0.008
-0.40
-0.0021
0.283
0.179
1.674
0.013
-0.60
-0.0089
0.235
0.140
1.489
0.018
-0.80
-0.0097
0.210
0.156
1.447
0.019
-0.0119
0.205
0.139
1.412
0.020
-0.0112
0.200
0.130
1.405
0.021
-0.0106
0.199
0.130
1.405
0.021
8
-0.0106
0.199
0.130
is the mean spot return
is the standard deviation of spot return
is the average jump size
is the standard deviation of the jump size
is the daily jump frequency.
1.405
0.021
1.5
2.5
3.5
4.5
5.5
6.5
7.5
8.5
9.5
0.1
0.2
0.5
-1.00
0.7
-1.20
0.9
Fig. 3. Simulated skewnes with variation in (0.5 -10) and (0.6 2).
0.20
0.00
0.60 0.80 1.00 1.20 1.40 1.60 1.80 2.00 2.20
Skewness
0.5
-0.20
-0.40
-0.60
0.1
-0.80
0.2
0.4
-1.00
0.6
-1.20
0.9
0.00
0.00
0.30
0.60
0.90
-0.50
Skewness
-1.00
-1.50
0.5
-2.00
2
4
6.5
-2.50
Fig. 5. Simulated skewness with variation in
0.9).
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10
0.0
0.20
0.5 1.5 2.5
-0.2
0.00
-0.4
-0.20
Skewness
Skewness
-0.6
-0.8
-0.40
0.05
0.13
-0.60
0.17
-0.80
0.19
-1.0
-1.00
0.8
-1.2
1.2
-1.20
1.6
-1.4
-1.40
2
-1.6
2.2
0.50
0.50
0.00
0.00
-0.60
-0.30
0.00
0.30
0.60
Skewness
Skewness
-0.90
0.90
-0.50
0.30
0.60
0.90
-1.00
-1.50
-1.00
0.00
-0.50
0.6
1
-2.00
-1.50
0.01
1.4
1.8
0.03
-2.50
2.2
0.07
-2.00
0.15
0.19
Fig. 7. Simulated skewness with variation in (0.01 0.19) and
0.9).
(-0.9
0.40
0.20
0.00
0.01
0.05
0.09
0.13
0.17
Skewness
-0.20
-0.40
0.5
-0.60
-0.80
-1.00
-1.20
1.5
3.5
5.5
7.5
9.5
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1.000
0.000
0.182
(1.000)
(1.000)
(0.017)
0.000
1.000
-0.615
(1.000)
(1.000)
(0.000)
0.182
-0.615
1.000
(0.017)
(0.000)
(1.000)
AND
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VIII. BIOGRAPHIES
Xuebing Lu is currently a PhD
candidate at the Faculty of Information
Technology,
Monash
University,
Australia. Her education background is
in Applied Finance. Her areas of
interests are price and volatility
modelling, and risk management in
electricity market.
VI. CONCLUSION
The limitation of the study lies in the simplicity of the
models we used to simulate the spot returns. Both (10) and
(14) assumed constant mean-reversion rates (), standard
deviation (), average jump sizes ( ), jump frequency ()
and standard deviation of jump size (), though we try to
compensate this by simulating spot returns with different
ranges of the above parameters. Therefore the results in this
study should only be used as a guide when comes to
choosing models and values for parameters when doing
similar simulation. However, these assumptions will be
relaxed in later studies.
In conclusion, we have attempted to explain the
existence of negative skewness in spot returns by simulating
spot returns using a jump-diffusion model. As shown in the
paper, the results of the simulation indicate correlation
between the existence of price spikes and negative
skewness in the spot return. The results also demonstrate
the different effects of model parameters can have on
S
-0.50
-0.40
-0.30
-0.20
-0.10
0.10
0.20
0.30
0.40
0.50
0.60
0.70
0.80
0.90
0.6
-0.74
-0.77
-1.02
-0.81
-1.60
-1.45
-1.50
-1.24
-0.93
-1.59
-1.75
-1.24
-1.12
-1.23
0.8
-0.87
-0.85
-1.17
-0.86
-1.18
-1.34
-1.32
-1.43
-1.57
-0.82
-1.48
-1.18
-1.17
-1.33
-0.77
-0.73
-1.11
-0.80
-0.76
-1.33
-1.04
-1.19
-0.86
-1.48
-0.78
-0.82
-0.97
-1.15
1.2
-0.87
-0.60
-0.42
-0.84
-1.58
-0.91
-0.73
-1.24
-1.47
-0.95
-1.04
-0.87
-0.90
-1.01
1.4
-1.09
-0.88
-0.71
-0.91
-0.67
-0.84
-1.18
-0.84
-0.97
-1.05
-1.35
-1.31
-1.40
-1.21
1.6
-0.65
-0.44
-1.13
-0.53
-0.82
-1.19
-0.88
-0.92
-1.29
-1.47
-0.82
-1.00
-1.10
-0.82
1.8
-0.88
-0.33
-0.57
-1.33
-1.03
-0.82
-0.49
-0.72
-0.91
-1.21
-1.56
-0.92
-0.65
-1.32
-0.78
-0.47
-1.11
-0.99
-0.60
-0.72
-0.82
-1.58
-0.72
-1.31
-0.82
-1.00
-0.82
-1.27
2.2
-0.50
-0.98
-0.81
-0.88
-0.84
-1.10
-0.35
-1.07
-1.38
-1.49
-0.72
-1.03
-1.09
-1.17
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