This paper analyses the impact of global economic activity and international crude oil prices on natural gas import prices in three major natural gas markets using the panel co-integration model. It also investigates the shock impacts of the volatility and the increase and decrease of oil prices...

This paper analyzes the evolution characteristics of the international natural gas trade structure and the integration of the international natural gas market by using complex network theory. It is found that both the LNG and pipeline gas import and export trade networks display scale-free...

June 2000 - Do industries that depend heavily on external finance grow faster in market-based or bank-based financial systems? Are new firms more likely to form in a bank-based or a market-based financial system? Beck and Levine find no evidence for the superiority of either market-based or...