Aims and Scope:

This journal provides a serious forum for research papers concerned with the economic and econometric
modelling and analysis of energy systems and issues. Contributions to this theme can arise from a number of
disciplines, including economic theory, financial economics, regulatory economics, computational economics,
statistics, econometrics, operational research and strategic modelling. A wide interpretation of the subject is
encouraged to include, for example, issues related to forecasting, financing, pricing, investment, taxation,
development, policy, conservation, regulations risk management, insurance, portfolio theory, fiscal regimes,
accounting and the environment. The journal is of interest to professional economists, financial analysts,
consultants, policy makers as well as academic researchers concerned with the economic analysis of energy
issues, broadly interpreted.

Editors:
B.W. Ang U. Soyta R.S.J. Tol
National University of Singapore Middle East Technical University (METU), University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK
Ankara, Turkey
J. Weyant
Stanford University, CA, USA

Associate Editors:
P. Agnolucci R. Huisman R.A. Ratti
University College of London (UCL), UK Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands University of Western Sydney,
Penrith South DC, NSW, Australia
N. Apergis B.-N. Huang
University of Piraeus, Greece National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, K. Rehdanz
Taiwan, ROC Universitt Hamburg, Germany
L. Bachmeier
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA C.-C. Lee P. Sadorsky
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, York University, Toronto, Canada
E.D. Baker Taiwan, ROC
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA, USA A. Serletis
T.T. Lin
University of Calgary, AB, Canada
National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Tawain
S.P. Brown
Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, DC, A. Siddiqui
H. Ma
USA University College London (UCL), UK
Henan Agricultural University (HAU), Zhengzhou,
China
J. Chevallier
Y. Smeers
University Paris 8, Saint-Denis, France
A. Maeda Universit Catholique de Louvain,
University of Tokyo, Japan Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
K. Fisher-Vanden
Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
PA, USA H. Mohammadi R. Smyth
Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia
R. Gerlagh
University of Manchester, UK W. Oh B. Su
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin-si, National University of Singapore
R.J. Green South Korea
Imperial College London, UK
S. Wang
C. Pasurka
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing,
L.A. Greening U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
China
Los Alamos, NM, USA Washington, DC, USA
T. Zachariadis
S. Hammoudeh J.E. Payne Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, USA
P. Zhou
B. Hobbs D. Popp Nanjing University of Aeroautics and
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Syracuse University, NY, USA Astronautics, Nanjing, China