European climate and energy policy will have a great impact on the European and Polish energy markets. Moreover, it … strategic measures, especially on the governmental level. EU climate and energy policy also entails sizeable investment … requirements and places important demands on the modernization programme for the energy sector. This spells the need to develop …

The paper is concerned with the empirical modelling of domestic demand for energy in the United Kingdom at the level of …-stage budgeting model of the household's demand for energy conditional on its ownership of durables. Preferences at both stages of the …, electricity and a composite good, "other fuels". This composite good is subject to such large measurement errors in the data set …

This paper is an attempt to interrogate and examine the unstoppable short fall of energy which has been paralyzing the … is a vast difference between the actual demand and actual supply of energy i.e. energy shortfall for the various segments … unit price of energy use for both the households and industries. …

electricity markets. We therefore investigate producer behavior in the context of electricity pricing with respect to fundamental … lack of appropriate available data. Applying an analytical model of a day-ahead electricity market, we derive work-on rates …, which provide information about the impact of TMC variations on electricity prices in the market constellations of perfect …

across african countries is important to understanding the process of economic development. And whereas, energy is linked … with the capacity to perform, the rate at which energy is consumed for the acceleration of the pace of socio …)will be a function of the extent to which its energy(power) resources are developed and utilised. This paper therefore argued …

Electric and natural gas are the two major sources of energy for residents of Washington State. Several states have … resources such as electricity and gas that are not captured by market prices. Washington State possesses diverse resources that … are susceptible to wastes and emissions originating from the consumption of energy. The impact of these wastes could be …

stakeholder groups’ interests. A study of the use of hedging instruments in 161 Polish non-financial listed companies is then … determine relationships between the hedging decision and financial standing of companies. However, company size is proved to be … the only significant factor for a hedging decision. The implications of these findings and new research questions are …

will allocate cash flows into cash holdings if their hedging needs are high (i.e., if the correlation between operating … if their hedging needs are low. The empirical examination of debt and cash policies of a large sample of firms reveals … hedging needs have a strong propensity to save cash out of cash flows while leaving their debt positions unchanged. In …

Using a sample of 6,888 non-financial firms from 47 countries, we examine the effect of derivative use on firms’ risk … the use of financial derivatives reduces both total risk and systematic risk. The effect of derivative use on firm value … could account for the mixed evidence in the literature on the effect of hedging on firm value. …