The costs of energy supply disruptions for industrialised economies go well beyond the economic measures of national accounts. According to different kinds of risks, physical shortages or price shocks, there are several categories of negative effects. Oil disruptions have both a direct and an...

Der Preis für Rohöl ist Ende vergangenen Jahres aufgrund der weltweit schwachen Konjunktur und der rückläufigen Ölnachfrage innerhalb von drei Monaten um etwa 10 US-Dollar auf 18 US-Dollar je Barrel gefallen. Verstärkt wurde dieser konjunkturelle Effekt durch den Einbruch des...

Obwohl die Ölnachfrage nicht zuletzt wegen des geringen Wirtschaftswachstums im ersten Halbjahr 2002 schwächer als erwartet ausgefallen ist und die OPEC mehr Öl produzierte, als Anfang des Jahres vereinbart worden war, sind die Preise für Brent-Rohöl von Januar bis Mitte September um nahezu...

A recurring theme in recent years in the debate on the international role of currencies has been the possiblity of pricing oil in euro. This paper contributes to these debates by providing a detailed review of the empirical evidence regarding the market for crude oil and current oil invoicing...

At present, oil markets appear to be behaving in a fashion similar to that in the late 1970s and early 1980s when oil prices rose sharply over an extended period. Furthermore, like at that time, analysts are split on whether such increases will persist or reverse, and if so by how much. The...

The main purpose of this report is to analyse the main features of the current crude oil pricing system; to describe the structure of the main benchmarks currently used namely Brent West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and Dubai-Oman; to clearly identify the various financial layers that have emerged...

We investigate the role of crude oil spot and futures prices in the process of price discovery by using a cost-of-carry model with an endogenous convenience yield and daily data over the period from January 1990 to December 2008. We provide evidence that futures markets play a more important...