This paper describes potential benefits from Canada's expanding oil sands production, higher energy exports, and further improvements in the terms of trade. Contrary to the previous Canadian exchange rate literature, this paper finds that both energy and nonenergy commodity prices have an...

The Gulf of Guinea's tremendous potential is creating investment opportunities for the region. Some of its resources, such as oil, minerals, and forests, continue to attract significant investments whereas others, like natural gas, could be exploited to their full potential if necessary...

The institutional setting of open gas networks and markets is revealing considerably diverse and diverging roads taken by the US, the EU and Australia. We will show that this is explained by key choices made in the primary liberalization process. This primary liberalization is based on a...

We study the welfare effects of Price Cap Regulation (PCR) and the strategic behavior it may induce in gas transportation networks by analyzing a stylized gas network within the framework of a multi-period game model under three scenarios: No regulation, a dynamic setting where the price cap...

We show that US natural gas prices have decoupled from oil prices following substantial institutional and technological changes. We then examine how this interrelationship has evolved in Europe using data for Algeria, one of Europe’s key gas suppliers. Taking into account total gas...

We present evidence on one facet of energy security in OECD economies - the extent of diversification in sources of oil and natural gas supplies. Viewed from the perspective of the energy-importing countries as a whole, there has not been much change in diversification in oil supplies over the...

La riforma europea, iniziata nel 1998, ha aperto il mercato del gas alla concorrenza, imposto la separazione delle reti dalle attività commerciali e introdotto una regolazione operata da istituzioni nazionali semi-indipendenti. Ci sono volute tre ondate successive di direttive e regolamenti, e...