This paper studies how monetary policy should respond to news about an oil discovery, using a workhorse New Keynesian … oil revenues by appreciating the terms of trade, creating “Dutch disease” and a deflationary bias which is overcome by …

discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …

discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have …

The paper recounts the history of Saudi Arabia's first national oil company, Petromin, which was originally supposed to … organisation of the Saudi oil sector today is very different from - and more efficient than - that of most other oil exporters in … the developing world. The paper concludes with a tentative taxonomy of national oil companies, based on the circumstances …

information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a county-level panel … find evidence that the discovery of oil at the county level may constitute a substantial male biased demand shock to local … labor markets, as it is associated with a higher gender pay gap. However, we find no evidence that oil wealth lowers female …