Severe climatic conditions, low population density, lack of infrastructure leave as the only possible nodular economic development of Arctic territories of the Russian Federation. In this case, a natural question arises: how to define points of growth, how to delineate those "patches of economic...

In recent years, new methods concerning risk mitigation techniques in energy planning strategies have become popular. Delarue et al. introduced the integrated portfolio investment model to account for supply-demand constraints. This paper proposes a model which is suitable to the energy...

This aim of this paper is to analyse possibilities and potential effects of soft commodity derivative market on the development of risk management practice within the CEE. Agricultural producers and other participants in the soft commodity market in CEE are lacking local commodity market. As a...