This paper examines the roles of futures prices of crude oil, gasoline, ethanol, corn, soybeans and sugar in the energy-grain nexus. It also investigates the own- and cross-market impacts for lagged grain trading volume and open interest in the energy and grain markets. According to the results,...

Energy demand / Govinda Timilsina -- Energy and economic growth / David Stern -- Oil prices and the macroeconomy / Lance Bachmeier and Michael Plante -- Economics of renewable energy / Painuly J. Prasad and Norbert Wohlgemuth -- Energy efficiency and economy-wide rebound: realising a net gain to...

BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) are viewed currently as pillars of relative political, economic and financial stability, with the prospect of a major shift in future world power. The paper aims at investigating the relationships among the economic, financial and political...

We examine the relationships between disaggregated country risk ratings and stock market movements in Turkey, using the autoregressive distributed lag approach. The long- and short-run relationships between stock market movements and political risk, financial risk, and economic risk components...