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1052: Estimating Marginal Cost of Quality Improvements: The Case of the UK Electricity Distribution Companies

Tooraj Jamasb, Luis Orea and Michael Pollitt

1051: The Economics of the Nord Stream Pipeline System

Chi Kong Chyong, Pierre Noel and David Reiner

1050: Efficiency Effects of Quality of Service and Environmental Factors: Experience from Norwegian Electricity Distribution

Christian Growitsch, Tooraj Jamasb and Heike Wetzel

1049: The Direct Costs and Benefits of US Electric Utility Divestitures

Thomas Triebs, Michael Pollitt and John E. Kwoka

1048: General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth: Electricity Diffusion in the Manufacturing Sector Before WWII

Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia and Solomos Solomou

1047: The Value of the EU Public Domain

Rufus Pollock, Paul Stepan and Mikko Välimäki

1046: The Size of the EU Public Domain

Rufus Pollock and Paul Stepan

1045: Oil Shortages, Climate Change and Collective Action

David M Newbery

1044: Locational-based Coupling of Electricity Markets: Benefits from Coordinating Unit Commitment and Balancing Markets

Adriaan van der Weijde and Benjamin Hobbs

1043: Ownership and competition: Finding Performance Breaks for Great Britain’s Power Plants

Thomas Triebs and Michael Pollitt

1042: Weather Factors and Performance of Network Utilities: A Methodology and Application to Electricity Distribution

Tooraj Jamasb, Luis Orea and Michael Pollitt

1041: Stochastic Equilibrium Models for Generation Capacity Expansion

Andreas Ehrenmann and Yves Smeers

1040: Exponential Conditional Volatility Models

Andrew Harvey

1039: On the Difficulty of Measuring Forecasting Skill in Financial Markets

Stephen Satchell and O J. Williams

1038: Evidence on Financial Globalization and Crisis: Geographic/Bilateral External Balance Sheets

Filipa Sa

1037: Minimizing the Cost of Innovative Nuclear Technology Through Flexibility: The Case of a Demonstration Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor Park

Michael-Alexandre Cardin, Steven J. Steer, William Nuttall, Geoffrey T. Parks, Leonardo VN. Gonçalves and Richard de Neufville

1036: Social Welfare Issues of Financial Literacy

Stephen Satchell and O J. Williams

1035: The Creation of a Market for Retail Electricity Supply

Stephen Littlechild

1034: Generalized Nash Equilibrium and Market Coupling in the European Power System

Yves Smeers, Giorgia Oggioni, Elisabetta Allevi and Siegfried Schaible

1033: Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis

Mohammad Pesaran

1032: Interfuel Substitution and Energy Use in the UK Manufacturing Sector

Jevgenijs Steinbuks

1031: Identification Strategies in Survey Response Using Vignettes

Luisa Corrado and Melvyn Weeks

1030: Why has productivity growth stagnated in most Latin-American countries since the neo-liberal reforms? (Revised 26-07-2011)

José Gabriel Palma

1029: Shifts in Portfolio Preferences of International Investors: An Application to Sovereign Wealth Funds

Filipa Sa and Francesca Viani

1027: Asset Management with Price Impact and Fair Treatment of Clients

Michal Jezek and Stephen Satchell

1026: Hedging Against Technology Risks of the Accelerator System of a First-of-a-Kind Accelerator-Driven Subcritical Reactor

Steven J. Steer, Michael-Alexandre Cardin, William Nuttall, Geoffrey T. Parks and Leonardo VN. Gonçalves

1025: Conditional Volatility and Correlations of Weekly Returns and the VaR Analysis of 2008 Stock Market

Mohammad Pesaran

1024: Econometric Analysis of High Dimensional VARs Featuring a Dominant Unit

Mohammad Pesaran and Alexander Chudik

1023: The Dissemination of Scholarly Information: Old Approaches and New Possibilities

Omar Al-Ubaydli and Rufus Pollock

1022: A Core Equilibrium Convergence in a Public Goods Economy

Nizar Allouch

1021: Fiscal Federalism and Electoral Accountability

Toke Aidt and Jayasri Dutta

1020: Exploring the Determinants of ‘Best Practice’ in Network Regulation: The Case of the Electricity Sector

Aoife Haney and Michael Pollitt

1019: A Nuclear Future? UK Government Policy and the Role of the Market?

David M Newbery

1018: Upstream vs. Downstream CO2 Trading: A Comparison for the Electricity Context

Benjamin Hobbs, James Bushnell and Frank A. Wolak

1017: The Restructuring and Privatisation of the Peruvian Electricity Distribution Market

Karim Anaya

1016: The Supply Function Equilibrium and its Policy Implications for Wholesale Electricity Auctions

Pär Holmberg and David M Newbery

1015: Operational and Investment Response to Energy Prices in the OECD Manufacturing Sector

Jevgenijs Steinbuks and Karsten Neuhoff

1014: Supplying Synthetic Crude Oil from Canadian Oil Sands: A Comparative Study of the Costs and CO2 Emissions of Mining and In-Situ Recovery

Aurélie Méjean and Chris Hope

1013: The Determinants of Internal Migration in a Developing Country: Quantitative Evidence for Indonesia, 1930-200

J van Lottum and D Marks

1012: The impact of instrument choice on investment in abatement technologies: a case study of tax versus trade incentives for CCS and Biomass for electricity

Timothy Laing and Michael Grubb

1011: Household Energy Expenditure and Income Groups: Evidence from Great Britain

Tooraj Jamasb and Helena Meier

1010: Non-cognitive skill formation in poor neighbourhoods of urban India (updated 27-02-2012)

Pramila Krishnan and Sofya Krutikova

1009: Dominance and Innovation

Chander Velu and Sriya Iyer

20109: Economic Efficiency of Alternative Border Carbon Adjustment Schemes: A Case Study of California Carbon Pricing and the Western North American Power Market

Qingyu Xu and Benjamin F. Hobbs

1008: Communication and Marketing of Services by Religious Organizations in India

Sriya Iyer, Chander Velu and Adbul Mumit

20108: Can Alternative Data Improve the Accuracy of Dynamic Factor Model Nowcasts?

Radu Gabriel Cristea

1007: UK Renewable Energy Policy Since Privatisation

Michael Pollitt

20107: The Imperium of the Colonial Tongue? Evidence on Language Policy Preferences in Zambia

Rajesh Ramachandran and Christopher Rauh

20106: A review of challenges from increasing renewable generation in the Indian Power System

Ramit Debnath, Vibhor Mittal and Abhinav Jindal

1006: Impacts of Personality on Herding in Financial Decision-Making

Michelle Baddeley, Christopher Burke, Wolfram Schultz and Phillipe Tobler

1005: The Economic Effects of Electricity Deregulation: An Empricial Analysis of Indian States

Anupama Sen and Tooraj Jamasb

20105: Optimal Feasible Expectations in Economics and Finance

Alfred Lake

20104: Behavioural Finance at Home: Testing Deviations of House Prices from their Fundamental Values

Alfred Lake

1004: Structural Interactions in Spatial Panels

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly

20103: A Dynamic Semiparametric Characteristics-based Model for Optimal Portfolio Selection

Gregory Connor, Shaoran Li and Oliver Linton

1003: Understanding Interactions in Social Networks and Committees

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly

20102: Matching Theory and Evidence on Covid-19 using a Stochastic Network SIR Model

Mohammad Pesaran and Cynthia Fan Yang

1002: Rational Partisan Theory, Uncertainty and Spatial Voting: Evidence for the Bank of England’s MPC

Arnab Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly

20101: A deep-narrative analysis of energy cultures in slum rehabilitation housing of Abuja, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro for just policy design

Ramit Debnath, Ronita Bardhan, Sarah Darby, Kamiar Mohaddes, Minna Sunikka-Blank, Ana Cristina Villaça Coelho and Abdulrasheed Isa

1001: Factor Demand Linkages, Technology Shocks and the Business Cycle

Sean Holly and Ivan Petrella

20100: Distributional Aspects of Microcredit Expansions

Tobias Christiansen and Melvyn Weeks

0953: Electricity Liberalisation in the European Union: A Progress Report

Michael Pollitt

0952: Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK

Sean Holly, Mohammad Pesaran and Takashi Yamagata

0951: Passive Investors, Active Traders and Strategic Delegation of Price Discovery

Michal Jezek

0950: UK Retailers and Climate Change: The Role of Partnership in Climate Strategies

Aoife Haney, Ian W. Jones and Michael Pollitt

0949: Monthly and Quarterly GDP Estimates for Interwar Britain

James Mitchell, Solomos Solomou and Martin Weale

0948: Efficient Repeated Implementation

Jihong Lee and Hamid Sabourian

0947: Can Merchant Interconnectors Deliver Lower and More Stable Prices? The Case of NorNed

Vladimir Parail

0946: Growth, Development and Natural Resources: New Evidence Using a Heterogeneous Panel Analysis

Tiago Cavalcanti, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi

0945: Making Combined Heat and Power District Heating(CHP-DH) networks in the United Kingdom economically viable: a comparative approach

Scott Kelly and Michael Pollitt

0944: Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy

Hadi Esfahani, Kamiar Mohaddes and Mohammad Pesaran

0943: Consumption, Social Capital, and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany

Sheilagh Ogilvie

0942: Favoritism

Yann Bramoullé and Sanjeev Goyal

0941: Herding, Contrarianism and Delay in Financial Market Trading

Andreas Park and Daniel Sgroi

0940: Banker Compensation and Confirmation Bias

Hamid Sabourian and Anne C. Sibert

0939: Herding and Contrarian Behaviour in Financial Markets

Andreas Park and Hamid Sabourian

0938: Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets: An Experimental Analysis

Andreas Park and Daniel Sgroi

0937: The Specificity of Manufacturing in Marx’s Economic Thought

Fiona Tregenna

0936: Trade and Economic Growth: Historical Evidence

Moritz Schularick and Solomos Solomou

0935: 'Services' in Marxian Economic Thought

Fiona Tregenna

0934: Election Results and Opportunistic Policies: A New Test of the Rational Political Business Cycle Model

Toke Aidt, Francisco Jose Veiga and Linda Gonçalves Veiga

0933: The Effect of Energy Prices on Operation and Investment in OECD Countries: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model

Jevgenijs Steinbuks, Andreia Meshreky and Karsten Neuhoff

0932: Carbon Markets and Technological Innovation

Thomas Weber and Karsten Neuhoff

0931: Quality of Supply in Energy Regulation Measurement,Assessment and Experience from Norway

Christian Growitsch, Tooraj Jamasb, Christine Mueller and Matthias Wissner

0930: Factor Decomposition of Sectoral Growth in South Africa, 1970-2007

Fiona Tregenna

0929: Dynamic Tax Competition under Asymmetric Productivity of Public Capital

Hiroki Tanaka and Masahiro Hidaka

0928: Contract Enforcement, Institutions and Social Capital: the Maghribi Traders Reappraised

Jeremy Edwards and Sheilagh Ogilvie

0927: The Revenge of the Market on the Rentiers: Why neo-liberal Reports of the end of history turned out to be premature (Updated 19 December 2011)

José Gabriel Palma

0926: Efficiency Analysis of Energy Networks: An International Survey of Regulators

Aoife Haney and Michael Pollitt

0925: Does Electricity (and Heat) Network Regulation have anything to learn from Fixed Line Telecoms?

Michael Pollitt

0924: Weak and Strong Cross Section Dependence and Estimation of Large Panels

Alexander Chudik, Mohammad Pesaran and Elisa Tosetti

0923: Distributional Implications of Halving Poverty in South Africa

Fiona Tregenna

0922: Dynamics of the UK Natural Gas Industry: System Dynamics Modelling and Long-Term Energy Policy Analysis

Kong C. Chi, David Reiner and William Nuttall

0921: Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search

Rufus Pollock

0920: The Economics of Public Sector Information

Rufus Pollock

0919: Causality Along Subspaces: Theory

Majid Al-Sadoon

0918: Corruption, Institutions and Economic Development

Toke Aidt

0917: Democracy, Judicial Attitudes and Heterogeneity: The Civil Versus Common Law Tradition

Carmine Guerriero

0916: Changing the Numbers: UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation and the Failure of Choice

Rufus Pollock

0915: General Network Effects and Welfare

Rufus Pollock