The paper examines the relationship between UK wholesale gas prices and the Brent oil price over the period 1996 … UK gas and oil prices predates the opening of the UK-Mainland Europe Inter-connector. Following a recursive methodology … impulse response functions are used to examine the effects that a shock in oil would have on gas. …

The Commission was asked to review the National Third Party Access Regime for Natural Gas Pipelines. The review sought …

-metropolitan areas over the last decade. It specifically examines electricity, gas, water and sewerage, urban transport, ports, railways …

this sector. We examine the IT sector, discussing the role of software versus hardware, the growth pattern of the software … industry and software exports, and the potential problems in IT labor supply to support future growth. We focus on a current … distortions and infrastructure constraints, rather than providing output or export subsidies to the software industry. We discuss …

The paper analyzes voluntary Free Software/Open Source Software (FS/OSS) organization of work. The empirical setting … the modular (nearly decomposable) architecture of software and of voluntary FS/OSS organization. But voluntary FS …

This is a case study of TeX, a typesetting software that was developed by Donald E. Knuth in the late 70's. Released … program's code, the software that is part of the TeX distribution, the newsgroups dedicated to the software, and many other …

This paper examines the choice of license terms along the development of a piece of software. Three licenses are … compared, the proprietary one, the Berkeley Software Distribution, and the General Public License. The choice of one or the … other license depends on the characteristics of the software's user base, the market conditions on the developers' job …