Faculty & Research
Faculty & Research
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Results
- February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Cases with Notes
Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
| For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... |
- February 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Suncor and the Future of Oil Sands
| Suncor, Canada's largest producer of "oil sands," faces a host of issues involving prices, costs, and the environment. The Government of Canada recently put an explicit limit on carbon emissions from oil sands and a price on carbon. Suncor, which produces more than... |
- February 2013
- Teaching Material
Australia: Commodities and Competitiveness (TN)
By: Laura Alfaro, Richard H.K. Vietor and Hilary White
| For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... |
- October 2012 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Keystone XL Pipeline
| On January 18, 2012, President Obama rejected TransCanada's application for a "national interest" determination to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone XL was a 1,700 mile long, 36-inch diameter pipeline to transport 1.1 million barrels a day of... |
- August 2012 (Revised June 2017)
- Cases with Notes
Australia: Commodities and Competitiveness
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
| For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control... |
- June 2012 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Low-Carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China
| For the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies—wind, solar, electric batteries and vehicles, nuclear power, and even carbon capture and sequestration. In 2009, the... |
- November 2011
- Teaching Material
Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA (TN)
- November 2011
- Teaching Material
Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance (TN)
- September 2011 (Revised February 2014)
- Cases with Notes
Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance
| Duke Energy, an American investor-owned electric utility, confronts multibillion dollar decisions about its future fuel mix. In particular, its leaders are considering building new nuclear capacity. Whether this is sensible depends, among other things, on demand... |