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Economic Models
Estimating the U.S. Dollar Depreciation Effect on Oil Prices (A. Al-Qahtani, ...
Record high oil prices during the first half of 2008 left many arguing about which market factor contributed the most to these dramatic price increases. Consuming nations blamed it on fac...
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Causality between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth by Atle Guttormsen
There are a large number of papers examining the empirical relationships between energy use and economic growth. However, these studies differ in their methodology according to which coun...
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Causal Relationship between Energy Consumption and GDP: An Empirical Analysis...
Yaya Keho, “Causal Relationship between Energy Consumption and GDP: An Empirical Analysis for Five West African Countries,” This paper examines the causal relationship between energy use...
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Econometric Model of Electricity Demand in Turkey as a Measure of Economic Gr...
Melike Bildirici and Tahsin Bakirtas, “Econometric Model of Electricity Demand in Turkey as a Measure of Economic Growth and Development,” This article develops an econometric model of el...
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An Alternative Oil-Pricing Currency and OPEC’s Foreign Assets by Mohammed A. ...
The relationship between oil and the U.S. dollar started with the creation of the oil industry when oil began to be both priced and traded globally in U.S. dollar. The fluctuations in th...
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Rural Electrification in Developing Countries: Conflicts between Local Techno...
Kaoru Yamaguchi and Akihiro Watabe, “Rural Electrification in Developing Countries: Conflicts between Local Technological Innovation and the National Electrification Policy,” Increasing t...
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: The Evidence from Turkey by Hakan Çen...
In this study, the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Turkey is analyzed employing unit root tests, cointegration and causality tests. Empirical evidence sugge...
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Energy as an Indicator of Human Development: A Statistical Approach by V. Edi...
The article discusses the possibility of integrating energy-related indicators into the HDI (Human Development Index). The authors first recalculated the weights of the HDI to form the M...
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Macroeconomic Modeling in an Oil-Exporting Country: The Case of Iran by Abbas...
The critical review undertaken in this paper discusses some of the major deficiencies and the strength of the earlier macroeconometric models (MEMs) constructed for Iran as a typical oil-...
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A Model for Forecasting and Planning: The Case for Energy Demand in Kuwait (M...
This paper contains a discussion of the Kuwait energy demand model and its simulation under various scenarios. It also discusses the simulation results and their policy implications. Th...
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Quantitative Measures of Financial-Sector Reform in the Arab Countries by M. ...
The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the financial-sector reform experience of the Arab countries during the 1990-2000 decade. The author’s analysis distinguishes between t...
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Transportation Demand for Energy: The Case for Kuwait by M. Nagy Eltony
This study presents a model of the demand for oil products in the transportation sector in Kuwait using time-series data for the period 1975-2000. The results indicate that the demand fo...
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Analysis of Structural Change in Quarterly Oil Demand by S. M. R. Tayyebi Jaz...
The purpose of this study is to improve the quality and the accuracy of short-term oil demand forecasts by analyzing historical consumption data critically, examining the seasonality of q...
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Transnational Corporations-Cum-Host Collaborative Growth: Structural Transfor...
Saudi Arabia’s rapid industrialization represents a success story of collaborative growth achieved between the host government and foreign transnational corporations. By actively encoura...
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Determinants of the Demand for Fresh Water in Kuwait: An Econometric Study by...
This paper aims at estimating a demand function for fresh water in Kuwait using aggregate annual data for the period 1970-1996. The study evaluates empirically the time-series properties...
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