The nature of oil demand influences the oil extraction rate and hence has implications for both the timing of oil exhaustion and optimal climate policy. We analyse what role oil demand specification plays in strategic interactions b between an oil-importing country producing final goods and...

This study investigates why the exchange rates of oil-exporting countries do not follow the monetary model after the oil prices hikes in 2000. In empirical research, real GDP is considered as real output, while changes in oil rents are not included in GDP growth. However, in practice, oil rents...

We examine the effects of oil rents on corruption and state stability exploiting the exogenous within-country variation of a new measure of oil rents for a panel of 31 oil-exporting countries during the period 1992 to 2005. We find that an increase in oil rents significantly increases...