Dear Colleagues,

Energy is a major input in all economic activities and has contributed significantly to prosperity across the world, particularly in industrialized countries, for the past century. However, the growing concerns regarding the deteriorating environmental impacts of fossil fuel use have brought into question the sustainability of the existing models. In recent years, academia and policy makers around the world have been developing and trying new models for energy production and use with various degrees of success. Energy market reforms, which have been designed and implemented in different forms in both developed and developing countries, are at the center of these models. While the reforms in some countries have primarily focused on changing incentives through price mechanism, such as reducing subsidies or levying taxes on fossil fuels and allocating subsidies to renewable energy, they have targeted the market structure and institutions in other cases.

In this Special Issue of Sustainability, we aim to critically review the energy market reforms and the lessons learned from their successes and failures across the world. The issue will consist of both theoretical and empirical papers with novel methods applied to experiences in both developed and developing countries. The papers will also deal with different types of energy, i.e., fossil fuels, renewable energy, primary resources, final products, and different sectors of the economy, i.e., households, firms, manufacturing, agriculture, and transportation. Original research papers providing rigorous analysis of the heterogeneous impacts of energy reforms on households with different income groups and compensation package are also welcome.

Assoc. Prof. Saeed Moshiri
Guest Editor

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• energy market reform
• energy subsidies
• fossil fuel
• renewable energy
• price reform
• structural reform
• environment
• sustainability