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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries: The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation
Almeida, Edmar Fagundes de; Mulder, Nanno - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046170
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Russia's Gas Sector: The Endless Wait for Reform?
Ahrend, Rudiger; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
The gas industry is perhaps Russia’s least reformed major sector. Prices are regulated, exports are monopolised and the domestic market is dominated by a state-controlled, vertically integrated monopolist, OAO Gazprom. Gazprom combines commercial and regulatory functions, and maintains tight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046214
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The European Natural Gas Market: Imports to Rise Considerably
Engerer, Hella; Horn, Manfred - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 18, pp. 122-129
Since the late 1990s, natural gas has been the second most important source of energy in the European Union after oil. Current forecasts predict that the demand for natural gas will continue to rise over the long term. As the production of natural gas in the EU has already passed its peak and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034301
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Diversification of Russian gas export routes
Makarov, Alexei A.; Likhachev, Vladimir L. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 18 (2002) 1, pp. 69-83
The exportation of energy (i.e., gas) resources plays a vital role in the economic development in Russia. The major market for Russian gas exports is Western Europe, which has caused a considerable amount of concern amongst Russian officials. This paper presents different options for gas export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005751669
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Cluster Relations in the Media Industry: Exploring the 'Distanced Neighbour' Paradox in Leipzig
Bathelt, Harald - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 1, pp. 105-127
-local 'pipelines' create a dynamic process of knowledge creation which is the key to understanding a cluster's growth process. It is … strong pipelines to firms and markets outside the cluster nor do they engage in intensive local networking and interactive …. Die Leipziger Unternehmen weisen weder starke " Pipelines' zu Markten ausserhalb des Clusters auf, noch verfugen sie uber …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639587
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La Turquie : futur Hub énergétique de l'europe ?
Chuvin, Pierre - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n° 194 (2008) 2, pp. 359-370
<alinea/> Turkey is important for its consumption of oil and gas and as a transit country. Transit to Europe has to deal with a major obstacle, the Straits. Transit from the gas and oil fields has to go across or around the Caspian Sea. This paper is reviewing routes seeking to avoid Russian dependence,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008926577
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Global pipelines or global buzz? : a micro-level approach towards the knowledge-based view of clusters
Bahlmann, M.D.; Huysman, M.H.; Elfring, T. - VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business … - 2009
cluster boundaries. The proposed distinction between local buzz and global pipelines is complemented by adding a third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008566338
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RUSSIA AND ITS PIPELINE WEAPON
Ciprian-Beniamin, BENEA; Cosmin, FODOR - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 2, pp. 44-49
and due to her control upon pipelines. Now Moscow can exert influence upon countries in Europe not through its … her will: this is a new geopolitics, a 21-th century geopolitics, which is centered upon the control of gas pipelines in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008829765
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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2011
proximity within city-regions is key for the innovative capacity of firms, the literature on 'global pipelines' has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838842
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When local interaction does not suffice: Sources of firm innovation in urban Norway
Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
proximity within city-regions is key for the innovative capacity of firms, the literature on ‘global pipelines’ has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854504