380 Commerce, communications & transportation

This research work develops a novel framework for experimental designs of liberalised wholesale power markets, namely the Agent-based Computational Economics of Wholesale Electricity Market (ACEWEM) framework. The ACEWEM allows to further understand the effect of various market …

The submission consists of twenty-three outputs, spanning over three decades. These range from books and chapters to reports, journal articles and edited publications. The accompanying commentary aims to set the submitted work in context, demonstrate that it constitutes a cohere…

There are indications of consensus among commentators and other stakeholders that shipping industry managements need to pay greater attention to `the human element'. This thesis examines the ways merchant marine officers (seafarers), working for British and European companies, a…