Price discovery in crude oil and refined oil products has been extensively undertaken in
organised futures markets for over a decade now. There are two dominant such markets today: …

Following important changes in the safety regulation of tankers, the dry bulk sector is
coming under the spotlight in a safety and quality perspective. Nominal freight differentiation …

Recent developments in the energy markets, and the surge and dip in crude oil prices over
the last few years, have renewed the interest in the workings of the two main price setting …

Developments in environmental legislation have exercised increased pressure on the
tanker sector to improve its quality. To date, the most influential and, indisputably, the most …

This article examines the relationship between refinery margins traded on paper using
petroleum futures (the paper refinery) and the physical trade of crude oil into the US. …

This paper examines the determinants of inequality in the distribution of CO2 emissions
across US regions. We implement a factorial decomposition of CO2 per capita based on …

The importance of specifying and quantifying the project risks in the investment decision
process cannot be overemphasized. Even more so in the context of marine project appraisal, …

Iron ore is among the biggest, non-energy extractive industry in the world in terms of value,
and the biggest in terms of the volumes of cargo it channels in international trade. Two key …

We study five-dimensional solutions to Einstein equations coupled to a scalar field. Bounce-type
solutions for the scalar field are associated with AdS 5 spaces with smooth warp …

The Mediterranean natural gas market is a particular one. Natural Gas projects are capital
intensive with important and costly trade infrastructure needed. Partly due to that, long term …