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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

'Does energy consumption cause economic growth? : Evidence from a systematic study of over 100 countries', Journal of Policy Modeling In Press (with J Chontanawat and R. Pierse)

'Optimal sliding scale regulation: An application to regional electricity distribution in England and Wales', Oxford Economic Papers In Press (with D Hawdon, P Levine and N. Rickman)

'An Empirical Analysis of Namibian Energy Demand', Energy Policy Vol. 34, No. 18, December 2006, pp. 3447-3463 (with G. De Vita & K. Endresen)

'Towards sustainable urban development: traffic generation at food superstores in the UK ', in C. A. Brebbia & V. Dolezel (Eds), Urban Transport XXII: Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century , WIT Press, UK, pp. 61-70 (with C. Black, D. Broadstock & A. Collins)

'Fuel Tourism in Border Regions: The Case of Switzerland', Energy Economics Vol. 27, No. 5, September 2005, pp. 689-707 (with S Banfi and M Filippini).

'Primary Energy Demand in Japan : An Empirical Analysis of Long-Term Trends and Future CO 2 Emissions', Energy Policy , Vol. 33, No. 11, July 2005, pp. 1409-1424 (with Y Ninomiya).

'Sri Lankan Electricity Supply Industry: A Critique of Proposed Reforms' , Journal of Energy and Development , Vol. XXX, No. 2, Spring 2005, pp. 239-278 (with H. Amarawickrama).

'Estimating Underlying Energy Demand Trends using UK Annual Data', Applied Economics Letters , Vol. 12, No. 4, March 2005, pp. 239-244 (with J. Dimitropoulos and G Judge).

'Unravelling Trends and Seasonality: A Structural Time Series Analysis of Transport Oil Demand in the UK and Japan', The Energy Journal , Vol. 24, No. 3, July 2003, pp. 63-96 (with Y Ninomiya).

Energy in a Competitive Market: Essays in Honour of Colin Robinson , (Edited) Edward Elgar , May 2003, .

'Modelling underlying energy demand trends' Chapter 9  in L. C. Hunt (Ed)  Energy in a Competitive Market: Essays in Honour of Colin Robinson , Edward Elgar , May 2003, pp. 140 - 174,  (with G Judge and Y Ninomiya).

'Underlying Trends and Seasonality in UK Energy Demand : A Sectoral Analysis', Energy Economics , Vol. 25, No. 1, January 2003, pp. 93-118 (with G Judge and Y Ninomiya).

 'Modelling Technical Progress : An Application of the Stochastic Trend Model to UK Energy Demand', Surrey Energy Economics Discussion Papers , SEEDS No. 99, January 2000 (with G Judge and Y Ninomiya).

'Aremos Windows 5.2', Economic Journal ,  Vol. 109, No. 459, November 1999, pp. F749-756 (with N Blake).

 'The Policy of Power and the Power of Policy: Energy Policy in Honduras' Journal of Energy and Development , Vol. 25, No. 1, Autumn 1999, pp. 1-36  (with C Salgado and A Thorpe).

'Comparative Properties of Local Econometric Models in the UK', Regional Studies , Vol. 31, No. 9, December 1997, pp. 889-899 (with M C Snell).

'Comparative Properties of UK Regional Econometric Models', Regional Studies , Vol. 30, No. 8, December 1996, pp. 773-782 (with J E Slaymaker & M C Snell).

'Evolving Seasonal Patterns in UK Energy Series', Chapter in G. MacKerron & P. Pearson (eds.), The UK Energy Experience: A Model or a Warning? , Imperial College Press, March 1996 (with G Judge).

'An Analysis of UK Energy Demand Using Multivariate Cointegration', Surrey Energy Economics Discussion Papers , SEEDS No. 86, December 1995 (with R Witt).

'Privatisation and Efficiency in the UK Water Industry: An Empirical Analysis', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics , Vol. 57, No. 3, August 1995, pp. 371-388 (with E L Lynk).

'The Electricity Supply Industry: The Case for More and Less Regulation', University of Portsmouth Inaugural Lecture , May 1995.

'The BSL UK Regional Econometric Model: A User's Perspective', Regional Studies , Vol. 28, No. 8, December 1994, pp. 859-866 (with L S Hughes).

'The Interpretation of Coefficients in Multiplicative/Logarithmic Functions', Applied Economics , Vol. 25, No. 6, June 1993, pp. 735-738 (with E L Lynk).

'The 'Wage Curve' and Long-Term Unemployment: A Cautionary Note', The Manchester School , Vol. LX, No. 4, December 1992, pp. 419-428 (with D H Blackaby).

'Industrial Energy Demand in the UK: A Cointegration Approach', Chapter 5 in D. Hawdon (ed.), Energy Demand: Evidence and Expectations , Academic Press, January 1992 (with E L Lynk).

'Industrial Structure of US Telecommunications: Some Empirical Evidence', Applied Economics , Vol. 23 , No.10, October 1991, pp. 1655-1664 (with E L Lynk).

'Competition in UK Telecommunications: Restructure BT?', Fiscal Studies , Vol. 12, No. 3, August 1991, pp. 73-87 (with E L Lynk).

'An Empirical Examination of the Case for Post Office Divestiture in the UK', Scottish Journal of Political Economy , Vol. 38, No. 2, May 1991, pp. 177-191 (with E L Lynk).

'Divestiture of Telecommunications in the UK: A Time Series Analysis', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics , Vol. 52, No. 3, August 1990, pp. 229-251 (with E L Lynk).

'Energy Price- and Income-Elasticities of Demand: Some Estimates for the UK using the Cointegration Procedure', Scottish Journal of Political Economy , Vol. 36, No. 2, May 1989, pp. 183-193 (with D N Manning).

'Energy and Capital: Substitutes or Complements? A Note on the Importance of Testing for Non-Neutral Technical Progress', Applied Economics , Vol. 18, No. 7, July 1986, pp. 729-736.

'Energy and Capital: Substitutes or Complements? Some Results for the UK Industrial Sector', Applied Economics , Vol. 16, No. 5, October 1984, pp. 783-789.


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WORK IN PROGRESS

Please feel free to download any of the following. This is all work in progress and would therefore be pleased to receive any comments or suggestions at L.Hunt@surrey.ac.uk but they may not be quoted or referred to without my consent.

OECD Energy Demand: Modelling Underlying Energy Demand Trends using the Structural Time Series Model' with A Al-Rabbaie (click here for the latest version of the paper).

'Causality between Energy Consumption and GDP: Evidence from 30 OECD and 78 Non-OECD Countries ' with J Chontanawat and R Pierse (click here for the latest version of the paper).

'Food Superstores, Food Deserts and Traffic Generation in the UK: A Semi-Parametric Regression Approach' with C Black, D Broadstock and A Collins (click here for the latest version of the paper).

'The Effect of Gasoline Pricing Policy on Social Welfare in Iran' with M Ahmadian and M Chitnis (click here for the latest version of the paper).

'The Thai gas industry: A comparative study of efficiency and technological progress ' with J Mantajit (click here for the latest version of the paper).

'Energy demand asymmetries and the underlying energy demand trend: Are they substitutes or complements? Evidence from the UK ' with G Judge (click here for a copy of the slides from a presentation at the 5th BIEE Academic Conference in association with UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) St Johns College Oxford , England 22-23 September 2005).

 

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