Ensuring reliability has and will continue to be a priority for electricity industry restructuring. Assessing the balance between public and private actions to ensure reliability should be guided in part by an understanding of the value of reliability to the nations' residential, commercial and...

Purpose – The article attempts to determine whether academic research in the area of finance has a direct link to the practitioners in the field. Design/methodology/approach – This paper used a survey of over 50 finance practitioners to ask their opinion on the relevance of academic finance...