Energy efficiency improvement is considered to be a desirable response to growing climate change and security of energy supply concerns. This paper studies the impacts of a varied set of macro-level market-oriented reforms on economy wide measure of energy efficiency across a group of transition...

The National Electricity Market was established in 1998 as a response to the overall deregulation and restructuring of the Australian electricity sector. The wholesale market integration effects of this establishment, however, remain to be examined. We use pairwise unit root tests, cointegration...

What effect does firm structure have on the product service quality on offer? We answer this question by empirically assessing the impacts of complete vertical separation, such as ownership unbundling, on the quality of service delivered by a liberalized network industry. Electricity...