This dissertation assesses the evolving structure and performance of the electricity supply industry (ESI) in Queensland following the restructuring and deregulation process undertaken in 1997 and 1998 respectively. This microeconomic reform process essentially replaced a vertically integrated...

This article is founded on 426 investigated companies, dealing with road freight transport. The respondents were both from trucking companies, dealing exclusively with trucking and transport units of manufacturing enterprises which use transport as a supplementary activity [building industry,...

Sich ständig verschärfende Marktbedingungen, wie mehr Wettbewerb durch Einführung des europäischen Marktes, größere Sensibilität für den Umweltschutz und daraus resultierende Planungsauflagen, machen die Projektsteuerung heute wichtiger denn je. Ein Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung...

1. Introduction2. Problem Background3. Privatization and regulation for Distribution network and case of privatization4. Economic and Demand Growth5. Technical and Commercial Losses6. Global Finance for investments in Electricity Distribution7. Distribution technologies and infrastructure8....

This article documents seasonal patterns and other characteristics of electricity spot prices in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM), over a 7-year sample period. The goal is to investigate more specifically the influence of seasonalities and outliers noted in the body of literature...

We have analyzed the application of decision analysis and risk management tools to solve practical problems associated with Climate Change and Risk Detection in the financial services industry. Geoengineering, which is described as an intentional modification of earth’s environment to mitigate...

Standard economic intuition of revealed preference implies that when two parties freely enter into a contract then neither should be worse off. In this study, we develop a simple model showing that introducing the opportunity to contract can lower welfare for some, and perhaps all, contracting...