This paper provides an exhaustive analysis of the key factors that led to rising global energy demand, based on an OECD sample and a non-OECD sample over the period of 1980-2009. In addition to income and price elasticities traditionally examined, this research takes into account the effects of...

In this paper we try to address the question of what could help make the renminbi a reserve currency. In recent years, the authorities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) have made efforts to internationalize its currency through a two-track strategy: promotion of the use of the renminbi in...