This paper examines the energy-related behaviour of owners and occupants of multi-family dwellings in Canada, some of whom do not pay directly for electricity or heat, but instead have these costs included in their rent or condo fees. Using data from the 2003 Survey of Household Energy Use, we...

As an essential component for economic growth, energy has a significant impact on the global economy. The need to meet growing energy demand has prompted cutting-edge innovation in clean technology in an attempt to realise environmental and cost objectives, whilst ensuring the security of energy...

In applied resource economics much attention has been focused.on the ability of the Hotelling model to explain observed firm behavior. In this paper, a preliminary specification search is performed to determine the appropriate cost function parameterization for the firms in the sample before...