This paper analyzes the relationship between oil price shocks and bank profitability. Using data on 145 banks in 11 oil-exporting MENA countries for 1994-2008, we test hypotheses of direct and indirect effects of oil price shocks on bank profitability. Our results indicate that oil price shocks...

Intro -- GEOPOLITICS OF OIL -- GEOPOLITICS OF OIL -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. JEFF BINGAMAN, U.S. SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO∗ -- Chapter 2 STATEMENT OF HON. PETE V. DOMENICI, U.S. SENATOR FROM NEW MEXICO -- PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. PETE V. DOMENICI, U.S....

This book answers the following questions: How will the global oil and gas market change in the next decade? How does the United States become the world's biggest oil and gas producer? What is the current condition of China's Shale Industry and energy security? Is hydraulic fracturing and...

Local content and the sustainable development Nexus / Damilola S. Olawuy -- Defining the 'local' in local content requirements in the oil and gas sector / Chilenye Nwapi -- Local content measures and the WTO regime : addressing contentions and trade-offs / Mandy Meng Fang -- Local content...

Brian Frehner is an assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University. He received a Bill and Rita Clements Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America in 2004-5 and is the coeditor of Indians and Energy: Exploitation and Opportunity in the American Southwest.