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...

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...

In the abscence of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, individual countries have introduced national climate policies. Unilateral action involves the risk of relocating emissions to regions without climate regulations, i.e., emission leakage. A major channel for leakage are...

If oil exporters stabilize the purchasing power of their export revenues in terms of imports, exchange rate developments (and particularly, developments in the US dollar/euro exchange rate) may contain information about oil price changes. This hypothesis depends on three conditions: (a) OPEC has...

There is an increasing tension between the Iranian Government and the west on an increasingly likely European oil embargo and the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. The main question is: What will happen to the international oil prices in the case of shocks in the flow of Iranian oil...