International Energy Markets: Understanding Pricing, Policies, and Profits

Carol Ann Dahl

PennWell, 2004 - Business & Economics - 587 pages

Energy lessons from the past for the future -- Perfect competition and the coal industry -- Natural monopoly and electricity generation -- Deregulation and privatization of electricity generation -- Monopoly, dominant firm, and OPEC -- Market structure, transaction costs economics and U.S. natural gas markets -- Externalities and energy pollution -- Public goods and global climate change -- Monopsony : Japan and the Aasia Pacific LNG market -- Game theory and the western European natural gas market -- Allocating fossil fuel production over time and oil leasing -- Supply and cost curves -- Linear programming, refining, and energy transportation -- Energy futures and options markets for managing risk -- Energy and information technologies -- Managing in the multicultural world of energy.

About the author

Carol A. Dahl is Adjunct and Professor Emeritus in Mineral and Energy Economics at the Colorado School of Mines and Adjunct Professor at the Chinese University of Petroleum-Beijing. Prof. Dahl is very active in the International Association for Energy Economics, serving on its journal's editorial board, acting as a book review editor, and having received the association's highest award for her unique contributions to the field.

Bibliographic information

• Title: International Energy Markets: Understanding Pricing, Policies, and Profits
• Author: Carol Ann Dahl
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: PennWell, 2004
• ISBN: 0878147993, 9780878147991
• Length: 587 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Industries / Energy; Political Science / Political Economy; Science / Energy