A key question in European integration is whether or not the global oil and gas market sector (over the period which includes the oil price hikes of 2001 to late 2007 and the global financial crisis from mid 2008 to early 2009) has been impacted to a greater or lesser extent by major oil and gas...

The purpose of this paper is to test an international oil and gas market model, hypothesised to arrive at new indicator of pure composite political risk for country oil and gas sectors. Current political risk ratings are largely subjectively quantified and are not frequently published. Investors...

This paper uses regression and multivariate analysis to examine oil stock market and large oil company stock price data in 30 and 60 day windows either side of OPEC production allocation meetings. The study continues on to investigate cointegration and exogeneity over the full period in the...

ABSTRACTThis paper examines oil stock market and oil company stock price data in 30 and 60 day windows either side of OPEC production allocation meetings. The study continues on to investigate cointegration and exogeneity over the full period in the sample. The results justify asking the...

Production allocations are analysed in conjunction with an investigation of unlagged and optimally lagged relationships between key daily crude oil price series interacting with OPEC prices. It is found that structural breaks in the interacting series coincide with production allocations...

Whilst some regional energy markets appear to be integrating, the pricing of natural gas exports in an imperfect global market remains a difficult task. This paper expands a global party to party gas price bargaining model to capture optimally lagged daily price changes of the major competing...

The Gulf Cooperating Countries (GCC), which include Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, dominate other OPEC cartel countries in oil production. The GCC banking industry is the major component of the GCC stock market. The issue arises as to the strength of the relationship between OPEC oil price returns and...

The United Kingdom, since the end of the Second World War, has not been vitally trade or defence dependent on Australia. Australia since the advent of European Economic Community has not been vitally trade dependent on the United Kingdom. There are continuing trade and investment relationships...

In the centre of Ulan Bator, the capitol of Mongolia, stands a statue of Lenin. A silent reminder of past ideology, when dependence of the country was concentrated towards Russia. Approximately six years on in the economic transitional process, the path remains difficult to negotiate. Mongolia...

This paper tracks the major reforms that have affected foreign investment in Mongolia during its transitional process from 1990 to 1997/98. It attempts to describe the changing moods and attitudes of the country's reformers and legislators over this period. It identifies key economic data and...