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Lags, Costs, and Shocks : An Equilibrium Model of the Oil Industry
Bornstein, Gideon - 2017
the world economy. We analyze the impact of the advent of fracking on the volatility of oil prices. Our model predicts a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455258
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The Changing Face of World Oil Markets
Hamilton, James D. - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458312
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The OPEC Surplus and U.S.-LDC Trade
Branson, William H. - 1981
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478322
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The Predictive Content of Energy Futures : An Update on Petroleum, Natural Gas, Heating Oil and Gasoline
Chinn, Menzie D. - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467654
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World Equilibrium with Oil Price Increases : An Intertemporal Analysis
Marion, Nancy Peregrim - 1983
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478029
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Historical Oil Shocks
Hamilton, James D. - 2011
post-World-War-II oil shocks reviewed include the Suez Crisis of 1956-57, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-1974, the Iranian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461867
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Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2010
understanding world oil markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462043
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Understanding Crude Oil Prices
Hamilton, James D. - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464155
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Meeting the Mandate for Biofuels : Implications for Land Use, Food and Fuel Prices
Chen, Xiaoguang - 2011
Biofuel production is being promoted through various policies such as mandates and tax credits. This paper uses a dynamic, spatial, multi-market equilibrium model, Biofuel and Environmental Policy Analysis Model (BEPAM), to estimate the effects of these policies on cropland allocation, food and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461960
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The Problem of the Commons : Still Unsettled After 100 Years
Stavins, Robert N. - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462253