I develop a structural model of urban travel to estimate long run gasoline price elasticities. I model the demand for transportation services using a dynamic discrete-choice model with switching costs and estimate it using a panel dataset with public market-level data on automobile and public...

This article aims to analyze and characterize the primary legal instruments used in the oil industry, with a particular focus on the contractual models that govern hydrocarbon exploration and production operations. It offers a classification of Joint Ventures, a cooperative mechanism that...

This paper analyses the reaction of the minerals industry to Commodity price developments in South Africa. This is achieved by augmenting a Taylor rule type central bank monetary policy reaction function with a measure of commodity prices. The results provide evidence of a statistically...

The post-World War II reconstruction of global trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a significant topic of discussion in the analyses of numerous bilateral economic relations, including those that are located in Asia Pacific. Since the reconstruction, Multinational Enterprises...

Hypermarkets are large retail suppliers of general merchandise or grocery items that also sell gasoline, often at very low margins. Using panel data for 1998-2002, this paper estimates the impact of hypermarkets on average state-level retail gasoline prices. The empirical results suggest a...

The wave of privatizations Latin America experienced during the 1990s was integral to stabilization programs and a general reordering of states’ roles in the regional economy. Over the past few years, however, these privatizations have come under increasing fire. Their purported adverse...

The bulk of the global innovative effort takes place in 5 countries: USA, Japan and China as leaders, with France and United Kingdom as immediate followers, which all display, on the long run, a negative marginal value added on innovation. The present paper attempts to answer the following...

Just before the global crisis soaring commodity prices pushed up inflation significantly, not least in EU neighbour countries at the Mediterranean. These price shocks affected public finances in the southern Mediterranean region, notably via government subsidies. Partly due to lags in the...

We try to determine whether capacity expansion timing in oligopoly among incumbents can be considered mobility deterring. We study the United Kingdom ´s petroleum refining industry between 1948 and 1998. Using tobit models, evidence is conclusive about accommodation among incumbents. We infer...

We try to get a handle on whether capacity expansion timing patterns in oligopoly among incumbents are followed. We study the United Kingdom ´s petroleum refining industry between 1948 and 1998. Using fixed-effects logit models, we find that U.K.´s refiners have not followed any definite...