We consider whether a newspaper article count index related to the organization of petroleum exporting countries (OPEC), which rises in response important OPEC meetings and events connected with production levels, contains predictive power for foreign exchange rates G10 countries. The applied Bayesian inference methodology synthesizes wide array established approaches modelling rate dynamics, w...

The restorative potential of green outdoor environments for children in preschool settings was investigated by measuring the attention of children playing in settings with different environmental features. Eleven preschools with outdoor environments typical for the Stockholm area were assessed using the outdoor play environment categories (OPEC) and the fraction of visible sky from play structu...

We conduct an event analysis on OPEC quota announcements to determine their impact on the stock returns in the oil industry. We find that announcements to reduce the quota are followed by positive excess returns over pre-announcement levels, announcements of no action are met with negative excess returns and announcements to increase the quota have no significant impact on stock market returns....

Abstract We analyse the behaviour of OPEC as a group by formulating theoretical model that encompasses perfect competition and various forms imperfect model. By confronting with quarterly data for period from 1992 to 2013 within context cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) model, we find support hypothesis regarding output decisions OPEC. also dynamic equilibrium correction is stable in-sa...

The paper outlines a model founded on statistical mechanics, complexity, and games. It is applied to a number of issues; including coalitional behaviour in OPEC, transition economics with reference to Russia, and conditions for the emergence of a Natural Gas Vehicle Industry.

For several decades, petroleum has been a commodity of vital impor-tance to the global economy, in which a number of interesting marketphenomena has occurred. This monograph represents my efforts todescribe several of these phenomenon, along with a few other elementsof the oil market. My focus is on elements related to the extractionof petroleum, and the interactions between...

abstract t his paper explains bilateral trade patterns between south korea and thirteen opec member countries over the period 1980-2014 using a gravity model. the estimation results show that the gravity equation fits the data reasonably well. we confirmed the existence of long term relationships between the bilateral trade flows and the main components of gravity model - gdp, income (gdp per c...