Climate change with increasing climate variability is likely to alter risks in agriculturalproduction. The effectiveness of using weather derivatives to hedge against drought risks forrain-fed grain maize production was investigated for current (1981-2003) and future (2070-2100) climates in...

We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United...

One of the major shortcommings of past environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) studies is that the spatiotemporal aspects within the data have largely been ignored. By ignoring the spatial aspect of pollution emissions past estimates of the EKC implicitly assume that a region’s emissions are...

This dissertation examines three facets of U.S. energy use and policy. First, I examine the Gulf Coast petroleum refining industry to determine the structure of the industry. Using the duality between cost-minimization and production functions, I estimate the demand for labor to determine the...

Purpose – This study examines the complex financial and reporting regulation that will oversee and monitor the veracity of newly commoditised carbon financial products traded in the proposed cap and trade Australian Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), the government’s centrepiece of a...

This Article, a sequel to earlier articles by the author on financial regulation and global finance, retrieves and updates J. M. Keynes’s original International Clearing Union plan for what ultimately became the International Monetary Fund (“IMF,” “Fund”).  Its motives are not...

The concept of compliance has developed over recent years. Gone are the days when satisfactory compliance in a bank consisted of making sure that a set of rules provided by a regulator had been met and each could be 'ticked off' and that appropriate returns had been sent in. Now the accepted...

The purpose of this study is to investigate and discuss current literature on crisis management within organisational settings. The key characteristic of a crisis is that you cannot control it that’s why they call it crisis “management”. In order to be able to manage crises effectively and...

The purpose of this study is to investigate and discuss current literature on crisis management within organisational settings. The key characteristic of a crisis is that you cannot control it that’s why they call it crisis “management”. In order to be able to manage crises effectively and...

Este documento ocasional resume los avances recientes en el análisis teórico de las causas de la inestabilidad fi nanciera, de sus consecuencias macroeconómicas, y sus implicaciones acerca del posible papel de la política macroprudencial. En primer lugar, se analiza cómo se propagan las...