ATLE MIDTTUN is Professor at the Norwegian School of Management and Director for Energy and the Environment. Some of his energy related publications are The Politics of Energy Forecasting and European Electricity Systems in Transition. - EIRIK SVINDLAND is a Senior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research. Recent publications include a study of the Scandinavian electricity market, Nord Pool: Issues and Dilemmas (with Lennart Hjalmarsson and Atle Midttun), and a survey of policy problems related to electronic financial markets in the EU, Elektronische Finanzm?rkte.