The Journal of Energy and Development, autumn 1995, volume 21, number 1

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Z. X. Zhang and Henk Folmer, “The Chinese Energy System: Implications for Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China.” This paper analyzes China’s e... (More) Z. X. Zhang and Henk Folmer, “The Chinese Energy System: Implications for Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China.” This paper analyzes China’s energy resources and their development, national energy consumption patterns, the achievements and remaining problems of electricity generation, China’s energy conservation in an international perspective, historical carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in China, and environmental challenges for the Chinese energy system in the CO2 context.

Timothy Ch. U. Kalu, “Petroleum Industry Sensitivity and World Oil Market Prices: The Nigerian Example.” Most empirical studies have focused on the demand side of energy with little or no attention to the supply side. To deal with this defect, this paper adopts a microanalytic approach to the problem of the individual oil firms to provide a basis for determining the effects of changes in such macro-variables as prices on their operations.

Øystein Noreng, “Life-Style, Quality of Life, and Energy Use: Issues in Energy Sociology.” This article investigates the impact of lifestyles on residential energy use. Special emphasis is placed on the energy use implications of the search for quality of life by households.

Benjamin S. Cheng, “An Investigation of Cointegration and Causality Between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth.” This paper reexamines the causality between energy consumption and economic growth with both bivariate and multivariate models by applying the recently developed methods of cointegration and Hsiao’s version of the Granger causality to transformed U.S. data for the period 1947-1990.

Hooshang Amirahmadi, “World Oil and Geopolitics to the Year 2010.” This paper focuses on the interplay of market forces and politics in the world oil market projected to the year 2010.

Alberto Cisneros-Lavaller, “Toward a Theoretical Development of the Concept of Corporate Political Risk.” This paper looks at developing a theoretical concept around the idea of “corporate political risk.”

Majed R. Muhtaseb, “An Option Pricing Theory Explanation of the Invasion of Kuwait.” The objective of this paper is to explain the invasion of Kuwait by making an analogy between a call option and the Iraq-Kuwait situation before the invasion on August 2, 1990.
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