Adjusting To Volatile Energy Prices

Author : Philip K. Verleger
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780881320695
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adjusting to Volatile Energy Prices written by Philip K. Verleger and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the development of petroleum commodity markets, then examines the quest by producers and consumers for stability in world oil markets. He finds that modest producer and consumer gains can be realized through negotiations that achieve removal of barriers to trade, elimination of hurdles to foreign investment, and strengthening of financial institutions.

Author : Philip K. Verleger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881321746
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adjusting to Volatile Energy Prices written by Philip K. Verleger and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verleger examines this quest for stability in world oil markets. He finds that modest gains can be achieved through negotiations between producers and consumers if agreements emphasize the removal of barriers to trade, elimination of hurdles to foreign investment in the energy sector, and improvement of institutions that guarantee against contractual default. commodities and concludes that, given their failure and the structure of current oil markets, the probability for success of an agreement on oil is remote. Moreover, he shows that an oil price stabilization agreement would impose enormous costs on consumers and that such an agreement is unnecessary given the introduction of new financial instruments that reduce the risk of price fluctuations for both consumers and producers.

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Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 9780881325843
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dollar Adjustment: How Far? Against What? written by and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dollar rose about 35 percent in real terms from 1995 to the end of 2001, supporting the US economy of the late 1990s but pushing the current account deficit to a record high. This book looks at the impact of this, examining intervention to achieve desired currency values and the impact of a major dollar realignment on worldwide economies.

Author : Steve A. Yetiv
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801459427
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crude Awakenings written by Steve A. Yetiv and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The real story of global oil over the past twenty-five years is not about the spillover effects of Palestinians fighting Israelis, or terrorist attacks on U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, or Iraq's stormy relationship with Kuwait. It is not even about periodic small- and large-scale U.S. attacks on Iraq. Rather, the real story is about longer-term developments that have changed the international relations of the Middle East, politics at the global level, and world oil markets. These developments have increased oil stability."—from the Introduction Thirty years after OAPEC shattered world markets for oil, the Western world remains profoundly dependent on foreign, particularly Middle Eastern, sources of petroleum. U.S. political rhetoric is suffused with claims about the vulnerability caused by this dependence. Hence, many political analysts assume that a search for stability of petroleum supplies is an important element of contemporary American foreign policy. Steve A. Yetiv argues that common assumptions about oil markets are wrong. Although prices remain volatile, Yetiv's account portrays a world market in petroleum products far more benign and predictable than the one to which we are accustomed. In Crude Awakenings, he identifies and analyzes real and potential threats to the global energy supply, including wars, revolutions, coups, dangerous alliances, oil embargoes, Islamic radicalism, and transnational terrorism. However, he also shows how some of these threats have been mitigated and how global oil security has been reinforced.

Author : Matthias Kalkuhl
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319282018
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy written by Matthias Kalkuhl and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.

Author : Mr.Peter Wickham
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451954727
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Volatility of Oil Prices written by Mr.Peter Wickham and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the behavior of crude oil prices since 1980, and in particular the volatility of these prices. The empirical analysis covers “spot” prices for one of the key internationally traded crudes, namely Dated Brent Blend. A GARCH (generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic) model, which allows the conditional variance to be time-variant, is estimated for the period which includes the oil price slump of 1986 and the surge in prices in 1990 as a result of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. The paper also discusses the growth of futures and derivative markets and the dynamic links between spot and futures markets.

Author : Ferdinand E. Banks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146154551X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy Economics: A Modern Introduction written by Ferdinand E. Banks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Energy is the go of things", as James Clerk Maxwell pointed out. This th simple truth was largely overlooked during the first 70 years of the 20 century, because in the industrial world most politicians, civil servants, and opinion makers were inclined to believe that virtually an infinite supply of reasonably priced energy would always be available, and so things would continue to 'go' in the manner to which many of their constituents and admirers had become accustomed. Similar opinions were held about fresh air, and water for consumption and agricultural uses. As a result, it was not until the last two decades of the century that serious courses in energy and environmental economics began to be offered at institutions of higher learning around the world. This book is intended as a comprehensive introductory text and/or reference book for courses of this nature having to do with energy economics. (I have also attempted to make the book useful for self study. ) As far as I know, there are no energy economics text or reference books on the level of this book in the English language. Needless to say, if I am wrong then I apologise to their authors; but right or wrong, I would like to see more energy economics books of all descriptions now. We cannot afford to have the same kind of mistakes made with energy policy that (in much of the world) are being made with e. g. employment policy.

Author : Robert McNally
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231543689
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crude Volatility written by Robert McNally and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to today's fraught and fractious Middle East, Crude Volatility explains how past periods of stability and volatility in oil prices help us understand the new boom-bust era. Oil's notorious volatility has always been considered a scourge afflicting not only the oil industry but also the broader economy and geopolitical landscape; Robert McNally makes sense of how oil became so central to our world and why it is subject to such extreme price fluctuations. Tracing a history marked by conflict, intrigue, and extreme uncertainty, McNally shows how—even from the oil industry's first years—wild and harmful price volatility prompted industry leaders and officials to undertake extraordinary efforts to stabilize oil prices by controlling production. Herculean market interventions—first, by Rockefeller's Standard Oil, then, by U.S. state regulators in partnership with major international oil companies, and, finally, by OPEC—succeeded to varying degrees in taming the beast. McNally, a veteran oil market and policy expert, explains the consequences of the ebbing of OPEC's power, debunking myths and offering recommendations—including mistakes to avoid—as we confront the unwelcome return of boom and bust oil prices.

Author : C. Fred Bergsten
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 0881325317
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The United States and the World Economy: Foreign Economic Policy for the Next Decade written by C. Fred Bergsten and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2005 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephan Haggard
Publisher : Peterson Institute
ISBN 13 : 0881325155
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness to Transformation written by Stephan Haggard and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Human rights and the protection of refugees is not a concern of left or right, or of the US only; it is an issue of importance to all Koreans, and indeed all countries. Haggard and Noland provide compelling evidence of the ongoing transformation of North Korean society and offer thoughtful proposals as to how the outside world might facilitate peaceful evolution."--Yoon Young-kwan, former Foreign Minister, Rob Moo-byun government --Book Jacket