The report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

This report presents data on international oil production, demand, imports, exports, and stocks. The report has four sections. Section 1 contains time series data on world oil production, and on oil demand and stocks in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). This...

The concept of measurement quality assurance (MQA) as embodied in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) programs is not generally used within European programs for testing or accreditation. Although the essential elements of quality control and quality assurance are in the...

Since the introduction of the autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (ARCH) model in Engle (1982), numerous applications of this modeling strategy have already appeared. A common finding in many of these studies with high frequency financial or monetary data concerns the presence of an...

We contribute to the task of identifying trends and cycles in energy prices by examining very long series of prices for coal and oil, going back to 1650 in the case of coal and 1859 in the case of oil. We find annual rates of increase in real price of greater than two percent are found for coal...

This study investigates the economic effects of external oil and food price shocks in thecontext of selected Asia and Pacific countries including Australia, New Zealand, SouthKorea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Thailand. The study is conducted withinthe framework of SVAR model using...

In this paper we employ a GMM-based approach to test the restrictions imposed by a two-factor 'market and oil' pricing model when a risk-free asset is assumed to exist. We examine the Australian market which has several interesting features including self-sufficiency in relation to oil, a large...

This study applies the gravity trade model to assess South Africa-Angola trade potential in the agriculturalsector. A step-by-step example of the model's empirical implementation is also provided. It is found thatthe gravity model, with foundations in the physical sciences, is a useful...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2009. Major: Economics. Advisors: Timothy J. Kehoe, Fabrizio Perri. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 110 pages. Ill. (some col.)