There are a number of stimuli behind energy efficiency, not least the Kyoto Protocol. The domestic sector has been highlighted as a key potential area. Improving energy efficiency in this sector also assists alleviating fuel poverty, for research is now demonstrating the strong relationship between poor domestic thermal efficiency, high fuel poverty and poor health and comfort status. Previous ...

This paper analyzes the effects of the green transformation on the German electricity sector with respect to the energy-political triangle. It focuses on how the development of renewable energies will affect security of electricity supply. In a cost-benefit analysis, the value of supply security is compared with its costs of provision. More specifically, the benefits of maintaining the present ...

This study analyzes the causal relationship between oil prices and production costs their implication over hedging in companies. Two different data sets have been used as a proxy for costs: i) monthly product price index related to activities from Bureau of Labour Statistics; ii) yearly obtained reports publicly traded For price, future contracts Brent (1M, 12M, 24M, 60M) explored. Based on Gra...

This study investigates the impact of certain macroeconomic determinants on stock market returns in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Those factors are: interest rates, oil prices, exchange and money supply. were empirically studied investigated to have an many countries. paper also attempts capture that those market, using a panel set data by implying several tests data, which include unit root ...

At present, the continuous increase of household electricity demand is strategic and crucial in management. Household consumers can play an important role this issue. The rationalization consumption might be achieved by using efficient Demand Response (DR) program. In paper a new methodology suggested combination data mining techniques namely K-means clustering, K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN) class...

This paper contains a dynamic conduct parameter model to look at the pricing behavior of five power marketers in the California Power Exchange (CalPX) on daily data for 2000. Only our previous paper Hodge and Dahl (2012) specifically focused on just the electric power marketers. In this paper we compare a dynamic conduct parameter with that of our earlier static model to test whether the static...

The Van der Woude syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant developmental malformation usually associated with bilateral lower lip pits. These congenital lip pits appear clinically as a malformation in the vermilion border of the lip, with or without excretion. As a genetic defect has been identified as a microdeletion of chromosome bands 1q32-q41, genetic counselling of patients may be considered....

A recent development in energy and environment decomposition analysis is the application of the technique to cross-country region comparisons. Cross-country region decomposition gives rise to several problems that do not normally occur in chronological decomposition of changes in a specific country. These include large variations in explanatory factors in the data, the measure of economic outpu...

Rebound effects measure the behaviorally induced offset in the reduction of energy consumption following efficiency improvements. Using both panel estimation and quantile regression methods on household travel diary data collected in Germany between 1997 and 2009, this study investigates the heterogeneity of the rebound effect in private transport. With the average rebound effect being in the r...

This paper employs quantile panel regression to the study of fuel price elasticities. Contrasting with standard panel approaches, this method reveals the impact of explanatory variables across all points in the conditional distribution of the response variable while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity. Applying quantile panel regression to German household data demonstrates that fuel price...