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OIL AND GAS MARKETS IN THE UK: EVIDENCE FOR FROM A COINTEGRATING APPROACH

Panagiotidis, Theodore; Rutledge, Emilie - EconWPA - 2005

The paper examines the relationship between UK wholesale gas prices and the Brent oil price over the period 1996-2003. Tests for Unit Roots and Cointegration are carried out and it is discovered that a long run equilibrium relationship between UK gas and oil prices predates the opening of the...

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China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region

Bustelo, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005

China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … from the Middle East), have led to deep concern among Chinese leaders regarding their country’s energy security. They are … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …

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An Empirical Test of the Dutch Disease Hypothesis using a Gravity Model of Trade

Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2003

. World energy prices are used to bypass issues of endogeneity regarding primary exports. A one percent increase in world … energy price is estimated to decrease a net energy exporter’s real manufacturing exports by almost half a percent. Similarly …, after instrumentation, a one percent increase in an energy exporting country’s net energy exports is estimated decrease the …

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Greed and Grievance in Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - EconWPA - 2004

We investigate the causes of civil war, using a new data set of wars during 1960-99. We test a `greed’ theory focusing on the ability to finance rebellion, against a`grievance’ theory focusing on ethnic and religious divisions, political repression and inequality. We find that greed...

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NATURAL RESOURCE ABUNDANCE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH REVISITED

Stijns, Jean-Philippe - EconWPA - 2001

Data on energy and mineral reserves suggest that natural resource abundance has not been a significant structural … affect economic growth through both “positive” and “negative channels.” Potential reverse causality running from these …

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AN EVALUATION OF POST-INDEPENDENCE AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN RELATION TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA(1960 - 1987}

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005

AGRICULTURE IN ITS COMMON PARLENCE INCLUDES PRODUCTION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN THE FIELDS OF CROPS, FORESTRY, FISHING AND LIVESTOCK. NIGERIAN AGRICULTURE WAS CHARACTERIZED BY LOW FARM INCOMES; LOW CAPACITY LEVEL TO SATISFY FOOD AND FIBRE NEEDS OF THE COUNTRY, AND PRIMITIVE TECHNIQUES OF...

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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005

happiness, and it can induct problems as well. GDP, a vague relation builder is used as an index to measure the progress and …, Local, International and Universal in nature. Author’s Research and Development approach for these vicious combination … infers that, all nations, irrespective their level of development, should evaluate Productivity/Management Decisions with …

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