This article proposes a two-stage oligopoly model for the crude oil market. In a game of several Stackelberg leaders, market power increases endogenously as the spare capacity of the competitive fringe goes down. This effect is due to the specific cost function characteristics of extractive industries. The model captures the increase of OPEC market power before the financial crisis and its dras...

This paper investigates the existence of ownership effects in the global oil and gas industry, i.e. whether there are systematic performance and efficiency differentials between National Oil Companies (NOCs) and privately-owned International Oil Companies (IOCs). The dataset, which is based on a survey published by Energy Intelligence and covers 1,001 firm observation years in the period 1987 t...

The relationship between oil reserves and oil extraction has recently become of interest to research community. Current empirical literature lacks an identification strategy that addresses endogeneity problem. This study takes advantage of (arguably) exogenous reserves discoveries to identify the effect of size of reserves on oil production. Our findings show that although in general oil produc...

Session title: Agriculture and Energy: new direct and indirect links can lead to unintended consequences The food commodity price boom of 2003-08 was the most notable in the last several decades. It substantially impacted global economic activity. It affected developing nations by impacting real output, the balance of payments, government budgetary positions and most importantly the well being ...

The goal of the article is to analyze role Saudi Arabia in world oil market and economy for a long historical period. It shown that strategically behavior always was continues be subordinated ensuring stable supply into market. Under leadership OPEC aims at pursuing an economically rational responsible policy, supporting balance demand its thus allow¬ing avoid deep lasting price decline. Until ...

from OPEC-caused price changes.) In addition, we believe that use of regulated prices is inconsistent with the spirit of a study purporting to demonstrate the advantages of increased competition. Our second alternative question modifies the meaning of an optimally configured capital stock. We call it the dynamic optimization (DO)