Cheaper, Greener and More Efficient: Rationalising UK Carbon Prices

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The European Electricity Market – Does Liberalisation Bring Cheaper and Greener Electricity?

This paper investigates the impacts of the liberalisation of the European electricity market. We apply a game theoretic modelling framework in order to assess the economic consequences of different market behaviour. It turns out that, because of different developments of European countries, some countries benefit substantially by strategic market behaviour whereas others could also profit from ...

Forecasting UK stock prices

The Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model, the Error Correction Model (ECM), and the Kalman Filter Model (KFM) are used to forecast UK stock prices. The forecasting performance of the three models is compared using out of sample forecasting. The results show that the forecasting performance of the ECM is better than that of the VAR and the KFM, and that the VAR performs a forecasting better than th...

Immigration and House Prices in the UK

Immigration and House Prices in the UK This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative effect on house prices and presents evidence that this negative effect is due to the mobility response of the native population. Natives respond to immigration by moving to different areas and those who leave are at the top of the wage distrib...

"Healthy Anorexia": rationalising contradictions

This paper explores how young women with disordered eating rationalise their behaviour as ‘healthy’. Based on preliminary findings from an Australian Research Council grant that is investigating why people with eating disorders are reluctant to engage with treatment services, we demonstrate how young women use normative discourses of body surveillance, ‘healthy eating’ and selfdiscipline to mai...