Replication in Energy Markets: Use and Misuse of Chaos Tools.

As pointed out by many researchers, replication plays a key role in the credibility of applied sciences and the confidence in all research findings. With regard, in particular, to energy finance and economics, replication papers are rare, probably because they are hampered by inaccessible data, but their aim is crucial. We consider two ways to avoid misleading results on the ostensible chaoticity of price series.