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OPEC's Market Power: An Empirical Dominant Firm Model for the Oil Market

In this paper we estimate a dominant firm-competitive fringe model for the crude oil market using quarterly data on oil prices for the 1986-2009 period. All the estimated structural parameters have the expected sign and are significant at standard test levels. We find that OPEC exercised its market power during the sample period. Counterfactual experiments indicate that world GDP is the main driver of long-run oil prices, however, supply (depletion) factors have become more important in recent years.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 4512

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Firm Organization and Market Structure
Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation: Demand and Supply; Prices
Thema
oil
dominant firm
market power
OPEC
Lerner index
oil demand elasticity
oil supply elasticity

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Golombek, Rolf
Irarrazabal, Alfonso A.
Ma, Lin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2013

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Golombek, Rolf
  • Irarrazabal, Alfonso A.
  • Ma, Lin
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2013

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