OPEC: Market failure or power failure?

Energy Policy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 570-580

  Cairns, Robert D ^a   Calfucura, Enrique ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

Capacity; Limit price; Natural decline

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY; EXCESS CAPACITY; HIGH DEMAND; LIMIT PRICE; MARKET FAILURES; NATURAL DECLINE; POWER FAILURE; SAUDI ARABIA; SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS;

COMMERCE; ECONOMICS;

COSTS;

DEMAND ELASTICITY; ENERGY POLICY; INVESTMENT; MARKET CONDITIONS; OPEC; PRICING POLICY;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 84866953473     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.058     Document Type: Article

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