Search Results - subject:"NORTH AMERICA"

Least cost planning from a customer's perspective

Sutherland, R.J. - 2008

In this paper, I offer some thoughts about least cost planning, not from the perspective of the regulator or utility, but from the perspective of a residential customer. The problem that I address is, as a homeowner in northern Virginia, I am about to make a long term fuel choice for my...

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Transporting US oil imports: The impact of oil spill legislation on the tanker market

Rowland, P.J. - 2008

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 ( OPA'') and an even more problematic array of State pollution laws have raised the cost, and risk, of carrying oil into and out of the US. This report, prepared under contract to the US Department of energy's Office of Domestic and International Policy, examines...

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Southwest regional geothermal operations research program. Summary report. First project year, June 1977--August 1978

Meyer, R.T.; Davidson, R. - 2008

A summary report is given of the information, data, and results presented by New Mexico Energy Institute and the five State Teams in their separate draft reports. The objective is to develop scenarios for the development of each identified geothermal resource area in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada,...

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Beyond FTAs : Deepening North American Integration

Dobson, Wendy - 2008

challenges for North America as China and India become major players in global production systems in manufacturing and services … of China and India should be a catalyst for deeper integration in North America and, indeed, for a single market in the …

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The Long American Grain Invasion of Britain : Market Integration and the Wheat Trade Between North America and Britain from the Eighteenth Century

Sharp, Paul Richard - 2008

This paper provides evidence that transatlantic commodity market integration began prior to the first era of globalization at the end of the nineteenth century. It does so by giving a long term perspective to the story of the development of an Atlantic Economy in wheat between the United States...

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What Does the Future Hold for the Canadian Wheat Board? Trade Friction, Dispute Settlement and State Support for Agriculture in North America

Froese, Marc D. - 2008

This paper examines the substance of the WTO panel decision for Canada-Wheat as it relates to the ongoing debate about the future of the Canadian Wheat Board. In this case, the WTO upheld the legality of Canada's marketing board for wheat and barley. The decision suggests that trade discipline...

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Cooperation in Global Governance among East Asia, North America, and Europe : A European Perspective

Kaiser, Karl - 2008

governance. The cooperation between North America and Europe was a decisive factor in the international politics of the second … increasing weight in world politics, as well as its growing regionalism and successful cooperation with North America and Europe … paper examines regionalism within and cooperation among East Asia, North America, and Europe as well as their respective …

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Statutory Debt Subordination : An Appraisal of the North American Experience

Hargovan, Anil; Harris, Jason - 2008

The High Court of Australia recently found that statutory subordination laws in Australia did not embody a principle of members come last. The decision in Sons of Gwalia raised questions about whether the current law represents a sound policy outcome, and specifically drew attention to competing...

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Regional Currency Arrangements in North America

Arndt, Sven W. - 2008

, have dominated currency arrangements in North America, especially after the peso crisis of 1994. Although the member …

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Accounting for persistence and volatility of good-level real exchange rates : the role of sticky information

Crucini, Mario J.; Shintani, Motosugu; Shintani, Mototsugu - 2008

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