An application of models of speculative behaviour to oil prices

Economics Letters

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 469-472

  Shi, Shuping ^a   Arora, Vipin ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Energy Information Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

Bubble; Estimation; Oil price; Speculative behaviour; Three regime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856068370     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.12.126     Document Type: Article

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