The European Community (EC) recently commissioned a study of the impact of potential appliance standards on electricity consumption in the twelve EC nations. This study looks at refrigerators, freezers, dishwashers, clothes washers, and clothes dryers. The impact of minimum efficiency standards...

The first essay presents a closed-form pricing formula for a European call warrant issued by a leveraged firm and demonstrates there are significant pricing errors if the formula derived under the all-equity firm assumption in Schulz & Trautmann (Journal of Banking and Finance, 1994) and the...

From the Department of Labor, the best survey for flexibility data comes from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly survey of 60,000 households that provides data on the labor force, employment, unemployment, and persons not in the labor force.The benefit of the CPS is that...

Technical analysis is a category of securities trading that utilizes mathematical formulas in order to signal buying and selling points. This paper will evaluate the profitability of various technical methods over a five-year period starting January 1, 2003, with securities in the Dow Jones...