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This article contributes to the debate about the impact of the U.S. fracking boom on U.S. oil imports, on Arab oil exports, and on the global price of crude oil. First, I investigate the extent to which this oil boom has caused Arab oil exports to the United States to decline since late 2008....
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occurred when in late November 2014 OPEC announced that it would maintain current production levels despite the steady increase … in non-OPEC oil production. Both conjectures are perfectly reasonable ex ante, yet we provide quantitative evidence that …
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We show that OPEC's market power contributes to global warming by enabling producers of relatively expensive and dirty … oil to start producing before OPEC reserves are depleted. We fully characterize the equilibrium of a cartel-fringe model …
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This paper investigates the impact of oil price variations on sectoral inflation for a sample of 10 top oil importing and exporting countries. Specifically, we analyze the effects of oil prices on the consumer price index using monthly data spanning the July 2009 to February 2021 period. Two...
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The nature of oil demand influences the oil extraction rate and hence has implications for both the timing of oil exhaustion and optimal climate policy. We analyse what role oil demand specification plays in strategic interactions b between an oil-importing country producing final goods and...
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This paper highlights the potential for joint OECD (or non-OPEC) carbon taxes to reduce OPEC's monopoly rent and … provide benefit to non-OPEC countries provided jointly agreed trigger strategies are adhered to. In traditional economic … system. In this paper, we discuss a third benefit of carbon taxes: transferring rents from OPEC to the oil importing …
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standard test levels. We find that OPEC exercised its market power during the sample period. Counterfactual experiments …
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nine major oil economies, six of which are current members of OPEC (Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and … OPEC members, which lie in the range of 45 to 125 years. For Indonesia, whose share of oil income in GDP has been declining … exporters ; OPEC member countries ; oil exports and foreign output shocks …
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It has been forty years since the oil crisis of 1973/74. This crisis has been one of the defining economic events of the 1970s and has shaped how many economists think about oil price shocks. In recent years, a large literature on the economic determinants of oil price fluctuations has emerged....
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We study the efficacy of releases from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) within the context of fully specified models of the global oil market that explicitly allow for storage demand as well as unanticipated changes in the SPR. Using novel identifying strategies and evaluation methods,...
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