Exploring the oil price and real GDP nexus for a small island economy, the Fiji Islands

Energy Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6506-6513

  Prasad, Arti ^a   Narayan, Paresh Kumar ^b   Narayan, Jashwini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC   (Fiji)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiji; GDP; Oil prices

Indexed keywords

CRUDE PETROLEUM; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FIJI ISLANDS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; OIL PRICES;

PETROLEUM INDUSTRY;

ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; OIL TRADE; PRICE DYNAMICS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FIJI; MELANESIA; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 35649008502     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.07.032     Document Type: Article

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