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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Oil prices"”.
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Impact of oil prices on stock market performance
The study investigates the impact of oil prices on stock market performance in ten countries, including Canada. The volatility in oil prices and the accompanying swings in stock market performance raised the question of what, if any, is the relationship between these variables. The research seeks …
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Past, present and future evolution of oil prices
This thesis reviews how oil price has evolved throughout time since it was discovered and commercially exploited in 1859 in Pennsylvania. Rather than a pure economic study, this thesis illustrates how major historic and geopolitical events have been influenced or driven by a frantic quest for oil. …
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Three Papers on the Political Consequences of Oil Prices
<p>Given the importance of oil in any country's energy needs, it should not be surprising that the increasing volatility of oil prices in the past decades is a challenge for most political systems. While the political and economic impact of natural resource wealth in general is strongly debated, …
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Oil prices and regional trade in the United States
… any pair of states is more sensitive to an oil price shock the farther away the states are from one another. Exemplifying this in a general equilibrium, a 10% increase in diesel price decreases trade from Massachusetts to California by 2.9%, but only by 0.47% to New York, accounting for a …
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Crude oil prices and the postwar Japanese refining industry.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1967. Ph.D.
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The effects of oil prices and other economic indicators on housing prices in Calgary, Canada
… thesis aims to answer: (1) to what extent can oil prices and other economic indicators predict the changes in housing prices and rent in the Calgary single family housing market and (2) to determine what the lag time is between them. Implications of this study from a macro perspective are …
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Towards realisation of stable oil prices: an empirical analysis of the impact of OPEC's oil price band/stabilisation policies.
… 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 what extent could OPEC …
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The Industrial Production Response to Oil Price Changes: New Evidence for G7 Countries
Since the middle of the twentieth century, crude oil has emerged as one of the world's leading indicators of economic activity due to its outstanding importance in meeting the world's energy requirements. Today, the importance of crude oil as the main source of energy has declined somewhat due to …
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Modelling the impact of oil price volatility on investment decision-making
… investment decision-making associated with the prices of crude oils. Since 1973, crude oil price behaviour has become more volatile, which suggested that different forces were driving crude oil prices. One of the main factors in generating the behaviour of crude oil prices is the role performed …
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Role of Speculation In Short-Term Us Oil Crude Prices and Gasoline Price Variability of the 2000S and the Role of Monetary Policy Price Stability Interventions
… analyze the short-run impact of futures contract prices on crude oil prices, the impact of crude oil prices on gasoline prices for consumers, and the effect of monetary policy interventions on the stability of the real price of oil for 2000-2008. In this study I used three sets of multivariate VEC …
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Consequences of oil price plunges for the Kazakh economy and possible mitigation measures
The last oil prices plunge1, which started in June 2014, affected the world economies seriously. This dissertation addresses the reasons, which resulted in this situation on the world oil market. It then analyzes consequences for oil exporting and importing countries, opportunities and challenges …
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Africa's recent oil boom : are the same mistakes being made again? Investigating the effect of the recent surge in oil prices upon the prospects of long term development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… the wealth generated from the 21st century oil boom. The answer to this question may well determine whether Africa has any prospect of sustainable resource led development in the near future. This work is an empirical study into how oil states have allocated their wealth in the modern era, …
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Investigation of the Impact of Turboprop Propulsion on Fuel Efficiency and Economic Feasibility
… was 22 percent more energy efficient. At current oil prices, the N+3 Airliner had nearly identical operating cost. However, at two times current oil prices, the N+3 Airliner has a slight advantage economically. Therefore, as long as the price of oil is above 2011 oil prices, $3.03 per barrel, the …
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An analysis of the impact of crude oil price shocks on the exchange rate in South Africa
Numerous studies have investigated the impact of oil price shocks on the exchange rates in developed economies. However, fewer studies have examined the effect of oil price shocks in developing economies. One study by Turhan, Hacihasanoglu and Soytas in 2012 examines the dynamic effect of oil price …
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Essays On The Effects Of Oil Price Shocks On The U.s. Stock Returns
… research investigates the effect of changes in oil prices and oil price volatility on the U.S. stock returns. The first essay tests whether the sign and the size of oil price shocks matter for the U.S. stock returns. The results suggest a linear model provides a good approximation to the …
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How to assess supplier flexibility?
The oil and gas industry is very volatile; it is characterized by unpredictable cycles of sharp rises and plunges in oil prices. This cyclical nature presents a huge challenge for companies that are operating in the industry. Companies have to be able to ramp up their production quickly so that …
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The impact of macroeconomic variables on the performance of selected African stock markets
… money supply, exchange rate, gold price, and oil price were used as independent variables. The results from the country-specific models varied widely from country to country. The heterogeneity of the results may be explained by differences in economic fundamentals between the countries, for …
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Essays On Oil Price Volatility And Irreversible Investment
… for the volatility of daily spot</p> <p>crude oil prices. Empirical research over the past decades has uncovered</p> <p>significant gains in forecasting performance of Markov Switching GARCH</p> <p>models over GARCH models for the volatility of financial assets and crude</p> <p>oil futures. We …
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