This study examines the relationship between income and CO2 emission on a per capita basis in Saudi Arabia during 1975-2003. It is motivated by the recent heightened world concern over global warming pollution which resulted in the formulation of the Kyoto protocol and its rapid ratification by...

This study examines the relationship between income and CO2 emission on a per capita basis in Saudi Arabia during 1975-2003. It is motivated by the recent heightened world concern over global warming pollution which resulted in the formulation of the Kyoto protocol and its rapid ratification by...

A 'methanol economy' based mainly on natural gas as a feedstock has a lot of potential to cope with the current and ongoing concerns for energy security along with the reduction of CO-2 emissions. It is, therefore, important to examine the price dynamics of methanol in order to ascertain whether...

Emissions trading schemes aim to reduce the emissions in certain pollutants using a market based scheme where participants can buy and sell permits for these emissions. This paper analyses the efficiency of the two largest schemes in Australia, the NSW Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme and the...

The recent fluctuations in stock prices around the world and the critical place that the demand function for money holds in the formulation of a country’s monetary policy motivated us to investigate the question as to whether real stock prices play any significant role in affecting the demand...

How important are oil price fluctuations and oil price volatility on equity market performance? What are the policy implications if volatility turns out to be significant? We assess this issue in an economics/finance nexus for Korea using a VEC model including interest rates, economic activity,...

This paper is the first attempt to investigate: (i) is the crude oil (WTI) price significantly related to the regional ethylene prices in the Naphtha intensive ethylene markets of the Far East, North West Europe, and the Mediterranean? (ii) What drives the regional ethylene prices? The paper is...

The patterns of dynamic linkages are examined among national stock prices of four Asian Newly Industrializing Countries stock markets - Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong - in models incorporating the established markets of Japan, USA, UK and Germany. Recent time-series techniques are...

The dynamic nature of the price information transfer when stock and futures markets switch between different price trading phases is examined. This is undertaken by decomposing Australian stock indexes and share price index futures contract data into bear- and bull-market phases and analyzing...

Unlike most empirical works on fertility analysis, this study is the first attempt to analyse the dynamics of fertility and its determinants with a particular focus on the role played by female education and family planning programmes in the context of a traditional society. The analysis is...