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China and the Geopolitics of Oil in the Asian Pacific Region
Bustelo, Pablo - EconWPA - 2005
China’s growing demand for oil is significantly changing the international geopolitics of energy, especially in the … East Asian economies (China, Japan and South Korea) is also a possibility. This document first of all presents an overview … of China’s energy sector, emphasising the strong growth in its energy demand to date and its potential for future growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118931
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Environmental Taxes and Economic Welfare: The Welfare Cost of Gasoline Taxation in the U.S. 1959-1999
Kim, Seung-Rae - EconWPA - 2002
The purpose of this paper is to provide reasonable estimates for the welfare cost of environmental tax reform in the U.S. economy. Unlike most previous studies that empirically evaluate the deadweight cost of taxation, the model employed here considers explicitly the joint allocation of leisure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556916
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OIL AND GAS MARKETS IN THE UK: EVIDENCE FOR FROM A COINTEGRATING APPROACH
Panagiotidis, Theodore; Rutledge, Emilie - EconWPA - 2005
The paper examines the relationship between UK wholesale gas prices and the Brent oil price over the period 1996-2003. Tests for Unit Roots and Cointegration are carried out and it is discovered that a long run equilibrium relationship between UK gas and oil prices predates the opening of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556400
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Recent Increases in Prices of Oil Products and their Possible Effects on the 2001-2002 Disinflation Program in Turkey (in Turkish)
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2005
Following the financial crises in November 2000 and February 2001, the Turkish government canceled the 2000-2002 disinflation and economic restructuring program on February 22, 2001, and introduced a new macroeconomic-policy program on April 14, 2001. According to this new program, the annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412705
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Commodity Price Insurance:A Keynesian Idea Revisited
Bower, John; Kamel, Nawal - EconWPA - 2005
Keynes proposed that a ‘Commod Control’ agency be created after the Second World War to stabilise spot prices of key internationally traded commodities by systematically buying and selling physical buffer stocks. In this paper, the creation of a new Global Commodity Insurer (GCI) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124875
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EMISSION POLICIES AND THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: SIMULATIONS FROM A DYNAMIC APPLIED GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL
NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2002
Recently, there has been growing concern that human activities may be affecting the global climate through growing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases(GHG). Such warming could have major impacts on economic activity and society. For the Nigerian case, the study uses multisector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125634
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Turkiye'de Akaryakit Urunu Fiyat Gelismeleri ve Enflasyon: Yeni Bulgular (= Changes in Prices of Oil Products and Inflation in Turkey: New Evidence)
Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2003
Ham petrol ithal fiyatlarindaki degismeler dolayisiyla akaryakit urunlerinin yurtici fiyatlarinda meydana gelen degismelerin Turkiye'deki olasi enflasyonist ve/veya deflasyonist etkileri, Kibritcioglu ve Kibritcioglu (1999) tarafindan kuramsal ve olgusal bilgiler isiginda sematik ve ampirik...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126125
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Ham Petrol ve Akaryakit Urunu Fiyat Artislarinin Turkiye'deki Enflasyonist Etkileri (= Inflationary Effects of Increases in Prices of Improted Crude-Oil and Oil-Products in Turkey)
Kibritcioglu, Aykut; Kibritcioglu, Bengi - EconWPA - 2003
Ham petrol fiyatlarindaki artislarin petrol ithalatcisi ulkelerdeki olasi enflasyonist etkileri, ozellikle 1970’li yillarda Dunya’da yasanan iki buyuk petrol krizinden bu yana tartisilir olmustur. Bir ham petrol ithalatcisi olan Turkiye’de de, enflasyonun onemli kaynaklarindan birinin ham...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126442
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Corruption, the Resource Curse and Genuine Saving
Dietz, Simon; Neumayer, Eric; Soysa, Indra de - EconWPA - 2004
Genuine saving measures net investment in produced, natural and human capital. It is a necessary condition for weak sustainable development that genuine saving not be persistently negative. However, according to data provided by the World Bank, resource-rich countries are systematically failing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062454
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Corruption, the Resource Curse and Genuine Saving
Dietz, Simon; Neumayer, Eric; Soysa, Indra de - EconWPA - 2004
Genuine saving is an established indicator of weak sustainable development that measures the net level of investment a country makes in produced, natural and human capital less depreciation. Maintaining this net level of investment above zero is a necessary condition for sustainable development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556036