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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"OPEC"”.
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OPEC PRODUCTION DECISIONS, MACROECONOMIC NEWS AND VOLATILITY IN THE CANADIAN AND ENERGY MARKETS
… model to examine the simultaneous impacts of OPEC press releases and production decisions, oil and gasoline inventory surprises, and U.S. and Canadian macroeconomic news announcements on oil and CAD returns and volatilities during, before and after the U.S. financial crisis and European …
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OPEC and oil production policy as affected by absorptive capacity: a case study of Iraq
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395).
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The Colombian Manufacturing Industry During The Era of The Opec Price Shocks (Input/output Application)
Economic theory suggests that a manufacturing industry would be affected by an increase in the international oil price because utility-maximizing consumers would reduce their demand for oil-intensive goods. Further, cost-minimizing manufacturers would reduce their oil and energy product input …
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Modelling the impact of oil price volatility on investment decision-making
… of crude oil prices is the role performed by OPEC and non-OPEC crude oil producers. Several theoretical and empirical analyses suggested that the economics behind OPEC’s supply of crude oil is different than those of non-OPEC supply. This study investigates whether prices of OPEC crude oils …
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An analysis of the OPEC Reference Basket with regards to African Pricing and Spread to the WTI and Brent
… analysing how African oil benchmarks within the OPEC Reference Basket relative to the WTI and Brent benchmarks which are considered as global pricing benchmarks for the period starting from 1997-2008. The Nigerian Bonny Light and Algerian Saharan blend were the two benchmarks used for this study. …
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The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries: a study of its organisation, policies and legal significance
… This thesis provides a comprehensive study of OPEC. It seeks to ascertain and analyse the international legal status of OPEC and its characteristics, to examine how OPEC functions and what its stated aims and objectives are, to evaluate the performance of OPEC in the context of these …
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The effect of increased national oil company sales on OPEC and the long run structure of the international petroleum market
Thesis. 1979. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Oil volatility and government spending behaviour in oil-exporting countries.
… in relation to government spending behaviour in OPEC and non-OPEC oil exporting countries. A research gap has been identified in three areas, firstly, there is a paucity of comparative literature between OPEC and non-OPEC countries. Secondly, there exists a limited number of studies of oil …
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Three essays on the effects of natural resources rents, institutions and demographic factors on economic growth
… the effects of oil rents and institutions on OPEC economies' growth. Chapter four uses extensive panel data of 216 economies and extends our study to consider the implications of demographic factors, political institutions, and natural resource rents on economic growth. Given the potential for …
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Towards realisation of stable oil prices: an empirical analysis of the impact of OPEC's oil price band/stabilisation policies.
… Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in (de)stabilising oil prices by identifying and critically investigating a gap in the extant literature with respect to OPECs actions in the oil markets, vis-Ã -vis its stabilisation policies. Two research questions were addressed, namely: to …
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Analysis of oil market fundamental using a system dynamics approach
… key players are identified for major suppliers (OPEC, US, Non-OPEC, and Rest of the World - ROW) and major consumers (US, China, and ROW), and correlations among those players are established in the system dynamics model. Different scenarios are created and simulated to explore the dynamics of …
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Two Essays on Oil Futures Markets
… Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the US Dollar exchange rate volatility on the backwardation of crude oil futures during the period from January 1986 to December 2008. The results indicate that oil futures are strongly and weakly backwardated 57% and 69% of the time, …
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An empirical investigation of a social accounting issue: a study of the association between energy usage and business risk
… has been focused on energy problems since the OPEC oil embargo and the interest of investors in the risk of securities. Support for the possibility that an association may exist was based on reviewing the energy problem, public opinion polls, writings by economists and business executives, and …
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Essays in the Gulf Cooperation Council economies and market dynamics
… abundant GCC countries as well as the remaining OPEC members that share similar characteristics; most notably the dependence on oil exports. Oil has a prominent status among all commodities as it acts as a barometer to a country's, and perhaps the world's, economic outlook. High oil prices may …
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Should Oil-Producing Countries Go Downstream?
… price responsiveness to the oil export levels of OPEC member countries and lend support to theories emphasising the existence of the market power in the world oil market. Furthermore, we evaluate the export decision on whether to export crude oil or refined products by assessing the economies of …
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Economic effects of fuel subsidy in oil producing countries : the case of Nigeria
… consumption, CO2 emission and social welfare for OPEC and member countries. Results from the Benefit Incidence Analysis (BIA) show that the richest household quintile enjoys twice as much the benefit of fuel subsidies as the poorest household quintile on the aggregate. Both the gasoline and …
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International Trade in Oil and the World Trade Organization: Towards the Resolution of the Producer-Consumer Dilemma
… of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has been the subject of contentions and debates over time. One of the dimensions of this discourse is in relation to the possible violation of the obligations stipulated by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) by members of OPEC …
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Methods of Energy Recovery in the Iron and Steel Industry: Evalution of New Possibilities and Design Studies for Slab Cooling
… to a head by the formation of the oi] cartel (OPEC) and its collective action in 1973/1974 to quadruple oil prices. The days of cheap and abundant energy sources came to an abrupt end. The immediate energy crisis was absorbed by the strong economies of the major energy consumers, hence the …
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Oil transportation in the global landscape : the Murmansk Oil Terminal and Pipeline proposal evaluated
… the influence of ancillary players such as OPEC, West Siberian Oil Reserves, the Murmansk locality, and the marine transportation industry. This thesis seeks to provide a overview of the oil industry generally, while specifically focusing on marine oil transportation. The thesis does so with …
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