Modern Energy Market Manipulation
This book explores the important economic and legal questions of market manipulation that have arisen in restructured energy markets, paying particular attention to the actions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Publication Date:
2018-11-15Author:
Chapters:
- Prelims
- Chapter 1 What is Manipulation? What is Not Manipulation?
- Chapter 2 Economic Theories of Manipulation
- Chapter 3 Some Historical Manipulation Cases, or Understanding Why the Hunt Brothers Did Not Manipulate the Silver Market
- Chapter 4 DiPlacido: The CFTC Confuses Manipulation and Hedging
- Chapter 5 Introduction to Electricity Markets
- Chapter 6 Were California’s Electricity Markets Manipulated, and by Whom?
- Chapter 7 Deutsche Bank: What Should the Legal Rule for Trading Financial Transmission Rights be?
- Chapter 8 Amaranth and Brian Hunter: You Certainly Look Guilty
- Chapter 9 BP America: Let the Best Story Win!
- Chapter 10 Barclays: The Defendant Meets Mr. Kafka
- Chapter 11 Rumford and Silkman: Money for Nothing, Kicks for Free
- Chapter 12 Powhatan: What is Manipulation?
- Chapter 13 Some Final Thoughts
- Name Index
- Subject Index
