As exemplified by the recent proposed mergers of Exelon Corporation (“Exelon”) with Pepco Holdings, Inc. (“PHI”) and NextEra Energy with Hawaiian Electric Industries, nuclear-heavy utility companies are increasingly seeking to offset the losses they are experiencing by acquiring...

In this paper we pursue a novel application of Bayesian empirical likelihood methods to estimate the canonical stochastic frontier model. We utilize this new framework to study technical efficiency, scale economies and technological change in the United States nuclear energy generation sector....

A think-tank debate in the United States that emerged in the summer of 2021 illustrates challenges to Western policy toward Eastern Europe in general, and to U.S. policy toward Ukraine in particular. Stereotypes of a post-Soviet Ukraine characterized by ultra-nationalism and authoritarianism...

This paper discusses eight variables that will significantly influence the evolution of U.S. nuclear policies and forces by 2025. Other variables, of course, operate today and could be considered. Moreover, new variables are likely to emerge between now and then; history is full of surprises....