The Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee of the European Parliament wished to continue its considerations of the draft Consumer Credit Directive by looking into specific elements of the Council common position and hence on 10 October 2007, hosted a workshop. This document provides a...

More than 3,000 electric utilities in the United States provide electricity to sustain the Nation`s economic growth and promote the well-being of its inhabitants. At the end of 1996, the net generating capability of the electric power industry stood at more than 776,000 megawatts. Sales to...

A computer model was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to analyze the electricity production, costs, and prices for two geographical regions for a single year. Bulk-power trading is allowed between the two regions and market clearing prices are determined based on marginal costs. The...

Transparent pricing is a prerequisite for an efficient, competitive market and responsible consumer behavior. If the card industry were required to price its products in a straightforward manner, and it were less costly for consumers to switch cards, deceptive practices would be harder to...

Artículo de revista ; The pandemic has speeded up the digital transformation of Spanish society. Cloud computing, data analytics and remote interactions have become even more essential, forming the basis for a new industrial and commercial reality in which large technology companies (BigTechs)...

Much of the focus in the literature relating to the legal issues associated with intelligent software agents focuses on issues associated with the valid conclusion of contracts involving the use of such agents. While contractual validity is of fundamental importance, suppliers and consumers in...

The New Zealand Government proposed in August 2004 a ‘radically’ new approach to address evasion in industries which is perceived to be ingrained, namely targeted amnesties. With a general election and other ‘more pressing’ issues, the proposal has not been significantly advanced. This...

Our study principally examines the relationship between board gender diversity and firm value and the extent to which this relationship is affected by the level of growth options relative to assets-in-place. Using a sample of 865 firm-years covered by 125 firms listed on the New Zealand Exchange...

We study a retail benchmarking approach to determine access prices forinterconnected networks. Instead of considering fixed access charges asin the existing literature, we study access pricing rules that determinethe access price that network i pays to network j as a linear functionof the...