Many empirical exercises estimating demand functions, whether in energy economics or other fields, are concerned with estimating dynamic effects of price and income changes over time. This paper first reviews a number of commonly used dynamic demand specifications to highlight the implausible a...

This paper assesses the degree of market integration in the U.S. natural gas market following the FERC’s ‘open access’ reforms. Daily spot prices at 76 market locations from 1993 to 1997 are used to examine the geographic extent of the market and the speed with which market forces move...

Revenues in countries that rely heavily on one or two primary commodities tend to fluctuate widely with prices in international markets. This fluctuation is especially wide when export taxes are a large part of the total tax base but also when the private sector reaps most of the gains from...

Se examinan los efectos de la politica fiscal en el equilibrio interno y externo de la economia, a partir de un modelo intertemporal de una economia abierta con tipo de cambio flexible, caracterizada por desempleo clasico en el corto plazo.

Se trata de explicar los efectos del deficit publico en la balanza de pagos por cuenta corriente, el tipo de cambio real y el nivel de renta. Para ello, se construye un modelo intertemporal de desequilibrio de una economia monetaria abierta con tipo de cambio flexible.

Se analiza en que medida la existencia de controles sobre los movimientos internacionales de capitales afecta el grado en que: (1) la reduccion del deficit publico, (2) el desplazamiento del gasto publico desde bienes importados hacia bienes nacionales, y (3) la sustitucion de la financiacion...