Experimental and game-theoretic analysis of electricity markets

There is a wide range of game-theoretic tools for electricity market analysis. An experiment is naturally formulated for any game-theoretic model verifying its validity or allowing the weak points of the theory, which cannot be realized in practice, to be identified. This paper discusses the applicability of the method of economic experiments for the electricity markets analysis. Despite the growing popularity of economic experiment as a method of cognition, not all branches of economic knowledge equally use the experimental approach. So, the experiments are most in demand in the theory of consumer behavior, neuroeconomics and theory of auctions. The experimental results of auction theory can significantly enrich studies of economics of the electric power industry. In addition, being introduced as a business game in the process of training students - the prospective top-level managers of the fuel and energy complex, economic experiments will also help to fulfill an educational function, as evidenced by the experience of their performance by the authors at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.