Gasoline subsidy in Islamic Republic of Iran is a controversial issue. While a group of politicians believe that its merits outweigh its costs, some economists believe that its harms exceed the benefits. A new approach is taken to study the changes in social welfare because of gasoline subsidies...

In this paper we use autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity-type models to investigate the determinants of returns and volatility in the New York Mercantile Exchange Henry Hub natural gas futures contract market. Using daily data for the period that natural gas has been traded on the...

This paper tests the theory of storage in North American natural gas markets, using the Fama and French (1988) indirect test. In particular, we test the theory's prediction that when inventory is high, large inventory responses to shocks imply roughly equal changes in spot and futures prices,...

This paper investigates the basic stylised facts of natural gas price movements using data for the period that natural gas has been traded on an organised exchange and the methodology suggested by Kydland and Prescott (1990). Our results indicate that natural gas prices are procyclical and lag...