COAL WAS DISCOVERED IN NIGERIA IN 1909 AND COAL MINING STARTED WITH A DRIFT MINE AT OGBETE, ENUGU IN 1915. SINCE 1958 …/59, WHEN COAL PRODUCTION REACHED ITS PEAK, THERE HAS BEEN A PERSISTENT FLUCTUATION IN THE AMOUNT OF COAL PRODUCED IN SUBSEQUENT … YEARS. THIS PAPER THEREFORE INVESTIGATES THE MAJOR CAUSES OF THE DECLINE OF THE NIGERIA COAL INDUSTRY AND PROVIDES A …

On 9 July 1997 the Treasurer referred the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry to the … competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry which are consistent with improving the overall performance of the Australian …

include regenerating indigenous forest would optimally design contracts for trades of the new good, “carbon sink credits”. The … designing contracts. In the context of a simple numerical example I discuss the constraints that the market puts on contracts … designs impose the risk on those most able to address or absorb it. I illustrate the potential gains from sink contracts with …

-term supply contracts and procurement in the spot market are compared. A capacity constrained service provider and a buyer of such … contracts. The ultimate demand the buyer has to satisfy and the spot market price of the input she has to purchase from the …

Labor contracts that result in dismissals are quite common in the real world. The question that arises is why employers … such behavior can be explained by workers' understandable unwillingness to agree to contracts that an employer will not …

This paper shows one type of asymetric information problems, their theorethical implications, the design of contracts …