Recent spikes in oil prices have thrown light on how economic activity in emerging markets may be impacted by oil price shocks. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the effect of oil price shocks on emerging markets. It tests for the existence of an asymmetrical relationship between oil prices and economic activity using a model developed by James Hamilton. It also assesses the impact o...

within the framework of international political economy, this article discusses the situation of energy resources, including oil and gas, in central asia and argues that due to abundance of oil and gas resources in such countries as kazakhstan, turkmenistan and uzbekistan, and hefty revenues generated by those resources, statesmen in these countries are planning to turn central asia into a majo...

One of the objectives of OPEC is the security of demand for the crude oil exports of its members. Achieving this objective is imperative with the projected decline in OECD countries' crude oil demand among other crude oil demand shocks. This paper focuses on determining the external crude oil demand security risks of OPEC member states. In assessing these risks, this study introduces two indexe...

This paper investigates returns and volatility transmission between SPGCE (S&P Global Clean Energy), SPGO Oil), two non-renewable energy commodities (natural gas crude oil), three products of oil distillation (heating oil, gasoline, propane). We estimate a VAR(1) asymmetric BEKK-MGARCH(1,1) using daily U.S. data from March 1, 2010, to February 25, 2020. The empirical findings reveal vast hetero...

abstract: iran is considered number one producer of pomegranate throughout the world. the oil extracted from pomegranate seed is considered to have great medical and nutritional values, therefore the study is concerned with this unique and valuable oil specially its chemical attributes. five different varieties of pomegranate were obtained from saveh pomegranate research institute. the seeds we...

Within the framework of an n-commodity, n-factor, K-country loglinear model with identical Cobb–Douglas production coefficients and identical consumer-expenditure shares across countries, balanced trade, and a pattern of world endowments permitting positive outputs of all commodities in each country, it is shown that, given any mode of aggregating the n commodities into at most n − 1 industrial...