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Follow the Money : Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
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Modeling UK Natural Gas Prices When Gas Prices Periodically Decouple from the Oil Price
Asche, Frank - 2015
demand for natural gas creating gas-specific pricing. Using the model to infer relative values when evidence favors …
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UK Natural Gas: Gas-Specific or Oil Driven Pricing?
Asche, Frank; Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2013
the time of the year. Most of the reversion back to oil occurs in spring and summer when demand for gas to heating and …
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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas - 2015
spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …
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Probable Oil and Gas Reserves and Shareholder Returns : The Impact of Shale Gas
Misund, Bard - 2016
Oil and gas reserves are the most important assets of oil and gas companies. A source of confusion for investors in oil companies is that reserves quantities and values are uncertain estimates. Reserves are typically classified according to probabilities of recovery from underground reservoirs....
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Oil and Civil Conflict : On and Off (Shore)
Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2017
We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries, while they decrease this probability in...
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Energy Price Reform : A Guide for Policymakers
Coady, David P. - 2017
This essay reviews the conceptual and quantitative literature on the efficient system of fossil fuel energy prices in different countries for reflecting supply and environmental costs, as well as the environmental, fiscal, and economic benefits from energy price reform. Drawing on recent...
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Short Run Effects of Bleaker Prospects for Oligopolistic Producers of a Non-Renewable Resource
Grimsrud, Kristine - 2014
consequently impact current supply. Bleaker demand prospects tend to accelerate resource extraction. A more pessimistic outlook for … future demand may, however, slow down the early resource extraction of producers with sufficiently large resource stocks and … response to bleaker demand prospects, producers with sufficiently large resource stocks will reduce their current supply. A …
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Short Run Effects of Bleaker Prospects for Oligopolistic Producers of a Non-Renewable Resource
Grimsrud, Kristine; Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Storrøsten, … - CESifo - 2014
consequently impact current supply. Bleaker demand prospects tend to accelerate resource extraction. A more pessimistic outlook for … future demand may, however, slow down the early resource extraction of producers with sufficiently large resource stocks and … response to bleaker demand prospects, producers with sufficiently large resource stocks will reduce their current supply. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734335
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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development
Lessmann, Christian - 2017
We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...
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