Golombek, Rolf; Irarrazabal, Alfonso A.; Ma, Lin - 2015 - Last modified Dec 18, 2015
We estimate a dominant firm-competitive fringe model for the crude oil market using quarterly data on oil prices for … the 1986-2009 period. All estimated structural parameters have the expected sign and are significant. We find that OPEC …-run oil prices, however, supply (depletion) factors have become more important in recent years. …