Monopoly power, futures market manipulation, and the oil price bubble

Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Just, David R ^a   Just, Richard E ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Futures markets; Monopoly power; OPEC; Price bubbles

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149391795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15420485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1542-0485.1241     Document Type: Article

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