Firm and Consumer Behaviour in Energy Markets

Abstract

This dissertation consists of three essays on the study of firm and consumer behaviour motivated by the energy markets. The first chapter studies whether a firm with better information than their rivals about the customers in the market can use that information to earn more profits. The second chapter studies whether a profit-maximising firm would want to induce positive consumption to a consumer that has self-control issues. The third chapter analyses empirically whether self-control issues can explain the problem of self-disconnection that persists in prepayment energy meters.