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During this time, we also consider other challenges like reduced market competitiveness, droughts and water scarcity. Our initial dataset comprises diverse variables: prices of essential energy sources (like gas and oil), Danube River water levels (indicating hydrological conditions), economic indicators (such as inflation and interest rates), total energy consumption and production in Romania and a breakdown of energy generation by source (coal, gas, hydro, oil, nuclear and renewable energy sources) from various data sources. Additionally, we included carbon certificate prices and data on electricity import, export and other related variables. This dataset was collected via application programming interface (API) and web scraping, and then synchronized by date and hour.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We discover that the competitiveness significantly affected electricity prices in Romania. Furthermore, our study of electricity price trends and their determinants revealed indicators of economic health in 2019 and 2020. However, from 2021 onwards, signs of a potential economic crisis began to emerge, characterized by changes in the normal relationships between prices and quantities, among other factors. Thus, our analysis suggests that electricity prices could serve as a predictive index for economic crises. Overall, the Granger causality findings from 2019 to 2022 offer valuable insights into the factors driving energy market dynamics in Romania, highlighting the importance of economic policies, fuel costs and environmental regulations in shaping these dynamics.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Originality\/value<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We combine principal component analysis (PCA) to reduce the dataset\u2019s dimensionality. Following this, we use continuous wavelet transform (CWT) to explore frequency-domain relationships between electricity price and quantity in the day-ahead market (DAM) and the components derived from PCA. Our research also delves into the competitiveness level in the DAM from January 2019 to August 2022, analyzing the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/k-01-2024-0268","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,5]],"date-time":"2024-05-05T01:02:35Z","timestamp":1714870955000},"page":"5274-5315","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Time-frequency connectedness between electricity prices in Romania and its determinants in the competitive markets"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"54","author":[{"given":"Irina Alexandra","family":"Georgescu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Economic Informatics and Cybernetics, Faculty of Cybernetics Statistics and Economic Informatics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies , ,","place":["Bucharest, Romania"]}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9005-5181","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Simona 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