Nations as Strategic Players in Global Commodity Markets: Evidence from World Coal Trade

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We explore the hypothesis that export policies and trade patterns of national players in the steam coal market are consistent with non-competitive market behavior. We test this hypothesis by developing an equilibrium model which is able to model coal producing nations as strategic players. We explicitly account for integrated seaborne trade and domestic markets. The global steam coal market is simulated under several imperfect market structure setups. We find that trade and prices of a China - Indonesia duopoly fit the real market outcome best and that real Chinese export quotas in 2008 were consistent with simulated exports under a Cournot-Nash strategy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EWI Working Paper ; No. 11/04

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis ; Trade: General ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels
• Subject: Strategic National Trade ; Imperfect Competition ; Steam Coal ; China ; Indonesia

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Paulus, Moritz ; Trüby, Johannes ; Growitsch, Christian
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI)
• (where): Köln
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74400
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