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We use a new micro data set that covers all oil fields in the world to estimate a stochastic industry-equilibrium model … market in a general-equilibrium model of the world economy. We analyze the impact of the advent of fracking on the volatility …
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point in the history of the world's use of this key energy source. In this article I review five of the ways in which the … world of energy may have changed forever …
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This paper explores the connections between the shift of world saving toward OPEC and the changing structure of U … become more interdependent through trade with the newly industrializing countries (NICs) in the developing world. The shift … of world saving toward OPEC in the 1970s effectively internationalized the supply of saving, as OPEC places its surplus …
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This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for energy commodities (crude oil, gasoline, heating oil markets and natural gas). In particular, we examine whether futures prices are (1) an unbiased and/or (2) accurate predictor of subsequent spot prices. We find that while...
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understanding world oil markets …
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post-World-War-II oil shocks reviewed include the Suez Crisis of 1956-57, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-1974, the Iranian …
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This paper examines the factors responsible for changes in crude oil prices. The paper reviews the statistical behavior of oil prices, relates these to the predictions of theory, and looks in detail at key features of petroleum demand and supply. Topics discussed include the role of commodity...
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world rate of interest(intertemporal terms of trade effects) and, for rigid wages, changes in employment. Thus Industria … gains from the intertemporal terms of trade effect if it is a net borrower and the world rate of interest falls. Precise … conditions for whether the world rate of interest falls or rises are given.We also show that Industria may gain from subsidizing …
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The COVID-19 pandemic as well as the Russian invasion of Ukraine have had profound effects on the global energy landscape, with some of the longer-lasting effects still unfolding. This paper discusses how these events have reshaped the supply side of the global oil market by focusing on...
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The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet -- in regard to natural...
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