U.S. Urban Water Prices: Cheaper When Drier

Impact of US Energy Policy on Crude Oil Prices

The price of Iranian crude oil in different markets depends on the price of US crude oil. In recent months, the oil and gas industry and the sale of Iranian crude oil and the co-operation and investments of oil companies operating in the field of oil field development have halted. Therefore, examining the effects of US government policies on the oil market is very effective. The most important ...

Impact of US Energy Policy on Crude Oil Prices

The price of Iranian crude oil in different markets depends on the price of US crude oil. In recent months, the oil and gas industry and the sale of Iranian crude oil and the co-operation and investments of oil companies operating in the field of oil field development have halted. Therefore, examining the effects of US government policies on the oil market is very effective. The most important ...

US Stock Prices and Macroeconomic Fundamentals

The Weekly Structure of Us Stock Prices

In this paper we use fractional integration techniques to examine the degree of integration of four US stock market indices, namely the Standard and Poor, Dow Jones, Nasdaq and NYSE, at a daily frequency from January 2005 till December 2009. We analyse the weekly structure of the series and investigate their characteristics depending on the specific day of the week. The results indicate that th...

Programming cheaper dependable systems

Services must be dependable if they are to deliver the benefit that justifies the cost of deploying them. Services must be sufficiently dependable for their purpose, but no more costly than is necessary to achieve that level of dependability. This document describes some work on identifying programming concepts that can be exploited to reduce the cost of dependable systems. This includes both t...