Saudi Arabia aims to reduce the growth of its energy demand. This paper shows how to substantially reduce the current fuel consumption and economic inefficiencies in the Saudi energy system, without altering consumer prices. We use the newly-developed KAPSARC Energy Model, a multi-sector...

Using a multi-sector equilibrium model of the Saudi energy system that handles administered prices in a mixed-complementarity formulation, we present results from a set of policy scenarios where end consumer prices are not altered. Some of these scenarios are the solutions to Mathematical...

Almost all of Saudi Arabia's electric power generation is fueled by oil and gas. Plans for future capacity envisage nuclear and renewables supplementing this mix and freeing up oil for other revenue-generating opportunities. Coal-fired generation has been promoted in some Gulf Cooperation...

Modeling and forecasting crude oil price volatility is crucial in many financial and investment applications. The main purpose of this paper is to review and assess the current state of oil market volatility knowledge. It highlights the properties and characteristics of the oil price volatility...

The uncertainty surrounding the economic growth rate has a social cost, usually determined as the loss of welfare that a representative agent is willing to incur to get rid of fluctuations in his consumption. Though this cost may be negligible in certain economies, this may not be the case for...

This paper presents the hard-linking between a bottom-up model of energy sectors and a top-down CGE model, in the case of an oil-exporting country - Saudi Arabia - where domestic energy prices are administered. The integrated model is solved with a Jacobi algorithm where the bottom-up and the...