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Iranian Crude Oil Marketing & Sale After The Islamic Republic
Vakhshouri, Sara - 2011
The marketing and sales polices of Iranian crude oil have been revised and changed after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Production policy that drastically cut back production in order to maintain oil reserves for future generations. In terms of marketing Iranian crude oil, the new revolutionary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014180026
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Critical Improvements in Oil Market Modeling
Gucwa, Michael - 2013
The complexity of the world oil market has increased dramatically in recent years and new approaches are needed to understand, model, and forecast oil prices today. Many models have been explored and most of the papers and modeling projects referenced in this paper identify their own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081058
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Perspectives on the World Income Distribution: Beyond Twin Peaks Towards Welfare Conclusions
Weisbrod, Julian; Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo - 2007
obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296043
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Large Shocks and Commodity Market Volatility
Hua, Jian - 2010
Using the Tsay (1988) outlier identification methodology on daily log-returns of 16 commodity spot price series and 25 commodity index series, this study assesses the impact significant and unexpected news announcements had on volatility between January 1, 1997 and December 31, 2007. Results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146702
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A quantitative assessment of strategies to achieve the sustainable development goals : an application to Guatemala
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martín; Horridge, Mark; … - 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a universal call to action to end poverty and protect the environment. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784224
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Winner's Curse, Reserve Prices and Endogenous Entry : Empirical Insights from Ebay Auctions
Bajari, Patrick; Hortacsu, Ali - 2015
Internet auctions have recently gained widespread popularity and are one of the most successful forms of electronic commerce. We examine a dataset of eBay coin auctions to explore features of online bidding and selling behavior. We find that profit margins for bidders are slim on average, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158940
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Hunger and sustainability
Sánchez García, José Luis; Pérez, Ismael Beiro; … - In: Economic research 32 (2019) 1,1, pp. 850-875
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389075
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Perspectives on the world income distribution: beyond twin peaks towards welfare conclusions
Holzmann, Hajo; Vollmer, Sebastian; Weisbrod, Julian - 2007
obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265084
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Globalization, Literacy Levels and Economic Development
Bhargava, Alok - 2010
This paper estimated models for GDP growth rates, poverty levels and inequality measures for the period 1990-2000 using … population health indicators such as life expectancy were important predictors of GDP growth rates. Fourth, results for poverty … measures showed that poverty was not directly affected by globalization indicators. Finally, the model for Gini coefficients …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195554
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Economic Growth and Cycles : Cross-Country Models of Education, Industry and Fertility and International Comparisons
Guisan, Maria-Carmen - 2008
The aim of this article is to point out the importance of education on a sustained economic development strategy, having into account inter-sector relations and the influence of education in the growth of production per head. Three cross-country models are presented to analyze the evolution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770814