With the global economy heading towards a severe oil crunch probably by 2015 or thereabouts, an analysis of Saudi oil fundamentals is causing the world disquiet and worry bordering on panic. Oil-importing nations have long treated Saudi Arabia as an infinitely deep well of crude oil supplies....

We present a general equilibrium model of the global oil market, in which the oil price, oil production, and consumption, are jointly determined as outcomes of the optimizing decisions of oil importers and oil exporters. On the supply side the oil market is modeled as a dominant firm – Saudi...

Using OLS, ARIMA and Change Point Analysis, this paper empirically analyzes the time series relation between oil price and production and explore various kinds of model that can be utilized to overcome statistical problems and to understand the relationship in Saudi Arabia, one of the fastest...

Using an auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) model approach, this paper empirically attempts to shed light on the dynamic relationship between oil prices and the total real stock prices in Saudi Arabia, one of the fastest growing economies in the Middle East and North Africa and the largest...