Canada is a safe and stable resource-rich nation in an increasingly energy- hungry world. While this state of affairs imbues our riches with strategic importance, it also creates an acute need for accurate data collection guided by nationally accepted methods, tools and approaches, to cut...

The identification, mapping and evaluation of geothermal resources are an important component of a diversified and resilient energy system. Geothermal resources offer an important series of contributions from direct (low temperature) heat to electric generation (from EGS or Enhanced Geothermal...

In a symmetric two-person rent-seeking game, it is shown that nonzero conjectural variations can be incorporated to yield a larger class of solutions than has been hitherto analyzed. The author shows that the fraction of rents dissipated as expenditures by seekers depends on the conjectural...

The author attempting to analyze the interplay between politics and economics is faced with a large number of problems, ranging from an always too small and idiosyncratic data set to the lack of any generally accepted theory of the process which has testable implications. My aims have been (1)...

States with politically appointed bank supervisors are more liberal in allowing entry than states with bureaucratic supervisors, contrary to Eckert's hypothesis and his results on taxi regulation. While our results disconfirm his, they may simply be evidence that the hypotheses have yet to be...

In the standard Tullock model of rent-seeking as a noncooperative game, aggregate expenditures by seekers can equal, exceed, or fall short of total rents depending on what is assumed about the number of seekers and the marginal return to a seeker's investment. If the supply of an input into the...

All but one of U.S. power markets administered by Regional Transmission Operators require that sellers of power to end-users must own or have contractual access to generation capacity sufficient to cover their loads. The exception is the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which...