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Forecasting the differences between various commercial oil prices in the Persian Gulf region by neural network

Movagharnejad, Kamyar; Mehdizadeh, Bahman; Banihashemi, … - In: Energy 36 (2011) 7, pp. 3979-3984

the benchmark light oil of Saudi Arabia over the period January 2000–April 2010. A neural network is introduced to … forecast the price of any commercial oil in these crude oils, provided that the price of the benchmark light oil of Saudi … differences in the oil prices with an average error of 8.82% for testing and 7.24% for training data. It is claimed that the …

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Iran's Role in Energy Security at Regional and Global Levels

Koolaee, Elaheh - In: Iranian Economic Review 16 (2011) 1, pp. 95-115

while enjoying huge reserves of oil and gas, keeps trying to play a major role in energy market at regional and global … levels. Under such circumstances, the Iranian oil and gas reserves is being considered as a remarkable source for securing …

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Stability versus Sustainability: Energy Policy in the Gulf Monarchies

Krane, Jim - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2013

The six Persian Gulf monarchies are home to some of the world’s largest hydrocarbon reserves, and also some of the cheapest energy prices and highest per-capita consumption. Government subsidies based on socio-political objectives have contributed to regime longevity, but they have also...

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An expensive diversion: Abu Dhabi's renewables investments in the context of its natural gas shortage

Krane, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2012

status as a key OPEC oil producer. In the political context of a rentier monarchy, such prestige is as an important source of …

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Environmental change and fishery management in the northern Persian Gulf

Esmaeili, Abdoulkarim - In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 52 (2009) 8, pp. 1071-1081

Approximately 52% of the 380,000 tons of fish landings in Iran come from the northern Persian Gulf, with a total of 108,000 fishermen and 8900 fishing vessels (2003 data). The fishery in the region is very important for the local economy, but the major problems facing the Iranian fisheries are...

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Muscat, Zanzibar and Persian Gulf Commercial & Social Relations in Nineteenth Century

Ghasemian, Salman; Pirmoradian, Mustafa; Mahmoudabadi, … - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 4 (2014) 11, pp. 282-290

By a survey on Qajar dynasty, there are some negligence by historians to investigate the Internal and external relations between southern Persian Gulf ports and its Eastern ports. Substantially, it is believed that southern ports had no role in Qajar foreign relations. But by study of several...

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An appraisal of the power density of current profile in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman using numerical simulation

Akhyani, Mahmood; Chegini, Vahid; Aliakbari Bidokhti, … - In: Renewable Energy 74 (2015) C, pp. 307-317

Having more than 2000 km tidal coastline, it's expected that Iran could exploit marine renewable energies. Furthermore, marginal countries around these seas are going to develop their energy resources and marine current energy can be a reliable choice. So, the results of a three dimensional...

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Oil pollution and its environmental impact in the Arabian Gulf Region

Al-Azab, M. (contributor) - 2005 - 1. ed.

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Poverty, inequality, and the local natural resource curse

Loayza, Norman; Mier y Teran, Alfredo; Rigolini, Jamele - 2013

The extent to which local communities benefit from commodity booms has been subject to wide but inconclusive investigations. This paper draws from a new district-level database to investigate the local impact on socioeconomic outcomes of mining activity in Peru, which grew almost twentyfold in...

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Corruption and the curse: The dictator's choice

Sarr, Mare; Swanson, Tim - 2013

We develop a dynamic discrete choice model of a self-interested and unchecked ruler making decisions regarding the exploitation of a resource-rich country. This dictator makes the recursive choice between either investing domestically to live off the productivity of the country while facing the...

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