Market Shares in the Post-Uruguay Round Era: A Closer Look Using Shift-Share Analysis

Commodity Market Financialisation: A Closer Look at the Evidence

The past decade has seen a sharp increase in the level and volatility of commodity prices (Graph 1). This has occurred alongside a sharp increase in commodity demand from emerging market economies, but also in parallel with a rapid increase in both commodity derivatives trading and financial investor activity in commodity markets (Domanski and Heath 2007; Dwyer, Gardner and Williams 2011). That...

A Closer Look at Demand Bids in CAISO Energy Market

One year of demand bids in the California energy market are analyzed and observations are reported on type, size, shape, and other characteristics of the bids. The implications of these observations, the underlying causes, and the potentials to improve demand bids by exploiting load flexibility are discussed.

Trade and Industrial Policy in Pakistan: Post-uruguay round Challenges

The views expressed in the paper are personal and do not reflect those of the organization with which the author is associated.

Auctions : A Closer Look

A ClOser lOOk

In recent years, systems of care principles have been increasingly adopted because of their potential to support efforts to improve child welfare and other human service systems in ways that lead to increased safety, permanency, and well-being for children, adolescents, and their families. However, while the systems of care approach has become more widespread, a clear understanding of what defi...