Given the increasing importance of gas in the Mozambican economy, the success of institutional reforms is key to the country's economic prospects of benefiting positively from the expected gas bonanza. In this paper we analyze the performance of the new institutional reforms (NIA) in Mozambique,...

Like other network industries, the European gas supply industry has been liberalised, along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of essential transmission infrastructure. The aim of this...

Wie könnte ein zukunftsfähiges Energieversorgungssystem aussehen und welche Bedeutung hat dabei das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz? Prof. Dr. Rainer Frank Elsässer, E.ON AG, vermisst u.a. die europäische Perspektive. Für Bernhard Hillebrand, EEFA, Münster, und Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ströbele,...

Es handelt sich um ein Gutachten, welches die E.ON AG in Auftrag gegeben hat, um den Antrag der E.ON AG zu überprüfen, die Kontrolle über die Ruhrgas AG zu übernehmen. Einleitend wird eine Marktübersicht über den deutschen und europäischen Gasmarkt gegeben. Anschließend wird die...

MIND is a hybrid model incorporating several energy related sectors in an endogenous growth model of the world economy. This model structure allows a better understanding of the linkages between the energy sectors and the macro-economic environment. We perform a sensitivity analysis and...

In this study, the authors examine how societal and industrial sector-specific peculiarities moderate the translation of intra-organizational openness into innovativeness. A sample comprising N = 24 subsystems from privatized Romanian natural gas companies and N = 26 subsystems from privatized...

In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...

We provide the description and illustrative results of the World Gas Model, a multi-period complementarity model for the global natural gas market. Market players include producers, traders, pipeline and storage operators, LNG liquefiers and regasifiers as well as marketers. The model data set...

It is generally agreed that boards are endogenously determined institutions that serve both an oversight and advisory role in a firm. While oversight role of boards has been extensively studied relatively few studies have examined the advisory role of corporate boards. In this study we examine...