Does OPEC influence crude oil prices? Testing for co-movements and causality between regional crude oil prices

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1375-1385

  Bentzen, Jan ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PRICE; CRUDE OIL; ECONOMETRICS; ENERGY MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEC; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 34447324077     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600606344     Document Type: Article

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