Chapter 1: Adi Imsirovic, Historical background to the emergence of benchmarks and Brent in particular -- Chapter 2: Liz Bossley, UK State, BNOC, tax, markets, and Brent; first forward trades, optionality, terms, players -- Chapter 3: Colin Bryce, genesis of Brent trading, people, banks and...

While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices,...

Institutional Theory and Oil Prices: Ceci est ne pas un Marché -- The Oil Price and Resource-Society Interaction -- Oil, between monopolies and free market -- Is OPEC dead? Oil Exporters, the Paris Agreement and the Transition to a Post-Carbon World -- Petroleum Conspiracies: How Russian...

The CME vulnerability : the best practice and the impact of negative oil futures trading price -- Why oil prices plunged and settled negative -- Meet the challenge with negative price and management in practice.

"The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020, is one of the most recognizable acronyms in international politics. The organization has undergone decades of changing importance, from political irrelevance to the spotlight of world...