TY - BOOK AU - Ferdinand E Banks AU - Ferdinand E Banks TI - Energy economics: : a modern introduction SN - 9780792377009 U1 - 333.7 BAN PY - 2000/// CY - Boston PB - : Kluwer Academic KW - Economics KW - Energy industries N1 - Energy Economics: An Introductory Survey -- Units and Heat Equivalents -- Discounting and Capital Values -- First Principles -- A Very Small Oil Well -- Annuities -- Some Comments on Capital Values -- Depletion -- The World Oil Market -- Some Background for Studying the Run-up to the Oil Market Endgame -- The Reserve-Production Ratio -- Oil Supply and Demand, and the Reserve-Production Ratio -- A Non-Technical Preview of the Oil Futures Market -- Oil Stocks and Oil Prices -- Appendix: The Domestic Industrialization of Hydrocarbons -- A Fuel of the Future: Natural Gas -- Geology, Units, and Some Economics -- Economic Theory and Natural Gas: An Introduction -- Regulation and Deregulation -- Marginal Costs and Peak Load Pricing -- Some Aspects of the World Coal Market -- Introducing Coal Supply and Demand -- Supply and Cost -- Some Theoretical Aspects of Coal and the Environment -- Coal and Co2 -- Appendix: Some Transportation Economics -- Energy Derivatives: Futures, Options, and Swaps -- Futures Markets: Terminology and Nomenclature -- Further Mechanics of Hedging and Speculation -- Basis Risk -- An Options Fable -- The Simple Algebra of Options -- A Comment on the Option Price -- Oil Swaps -- Electricity and Economics -- Daily Load Curves and Load Duration Curves -- The Economics of Load Division -- Some Final Observations on Electricity Tariffs -- Uranium, Nuclear Energy, and an Introduction to Intertemporal Production Theory -- Some Nuclear Background -- Some Intertemporal Cost and Production Theory -- A Few Bad Nuclear Vibrations and A Comment on Option Theory -- Additions, Extensions and Final Remarks -- The Hotelling Hypothesis Examined Graphically -- Convenience Yield -- Analytical Odds and Ends: A Statistical Observation; The Winner's Curse; and Real Options -- Conclusion: From the 20th to the 21st Century N2 - This is a modern text and reference book on energy economics. It assumes as background only the microeconomic portion of the introductory or first course in economics, and the mathematical requirements can, for the most part, be met by secondary school algebra. The subjects taken up in some detail are oil, gas, coal, electricity, and energy derivatives - i.e. futures, options, and swaps. There are a large number of simple exercises that are intended to build confidence, and an extensive glossary that both students and energy professionals should find useful ER -