The taxation reform in the oil and oil-refining industries in 2014 – the ‘tax maneuver' – was designed to boost the performance of domestic oil refineries. In late 2015, the planned reduction of export duty was suspended in order to keep unchanged the volume of tax-generated revenues...

One of the main factors behind the reduction in oil supply and, consequently, theincrease in oil prices in Q1 2021 was the voluntary decision of Saudi Arabia underthe OPEC+ agreement to further reduce its production by 1 mbpd. This fact resultedin a record overall conformity with the original...

The main uncertainties for the world oil market in H2 2022 are as follows: formal completion of the OPEC+ deal in September 2022 and chances and terms of its extension; sanctions on Russian exports of oil and oil products, their scale and duration

The revision of the oil output baseline for the UAE made it possible to reach a compromise in the negotiations to extend the OPEC+ agreement. In return, the UAE supportedthe proposal to extend the current deal until the end of 2022, and to increase thetotal oil production by OPEC+ countries by...

Despite the adherence to the commitments according to the OPEC+ deal on the joint efforts to cut production, during Russia's three-year participation in the deal as a whole the annual crude oil production in the country increased by 2.4% on the back of stabilized world crude oil prices. Collapse...

The refusal to sharply increase oil output by the OPEC+ deal participants and the news of the launch of vaccinations against the coronavirus were positively received by the world oil market: on December 10, for the first time since March 2020, Brent crude futures rose above $50 per barrel. The...

This paper presents an econometric model intended to explain fundamental cross-country differences in the quality of national economic institutions by using the set of economic, geographical, cultural and historical factors. Our key research hypothesis claims that bilateral trade may be working...

The paper deals with two issues. First, it focuses on the analysis of Armenia’s trade performance based on the utilization of standard statistical models and develops comparative estimates of this performance relative to the peer countries. The comparison is undertaken in terms of trade...