Non-conflicting oil pricing policies in the long run

Chichilnisky, Graciela and Heal, Geoffrey and Sepahban, Amir H. (1983): Non-conflicting oil pricing policies in the long run. Published in: OPEC Review , Vol. VII, No. no. 4 (1983): pp. 330-356.

Abstract

Our concern in this paper is to analyze the optimal long-run pricing policies of oil-exporting countries. These might be described briefly as the policies which best meet their objectives, subject to the various limitations imposed on them by the realities of world economic forces.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: oil; policy; OPEC; UNITAR; export; economic growth; international markets; exhaustible resources; prices; general equilibrium; demand elasticity
• Subjects: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation > Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy > Q41 - Demand and Supply ; Prices; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q4 - Energy > Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy

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