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DP12047 Lags, Costs and Shocks: An Equilibrium Model of the Oil Industry

We use a new micro data set that covers all oil fields in the world to estimate a stochastic industry-equilibrium model of the oil industry with two alternative market structures. In the first, all firms are competitive. In the second, OPEC firms act as a cartel. This effort is a first step towards studying the importance of ongoing structural changes in the oil market in a general- equilibrium model of the world economy. We analyze the impact of the advent of fracking on the volatility of oil prices. Our model predicts a large decline in this volatility.

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Rebelo, S, P Krusell and G Bornstein (2017), ‘DP12047 Lags, Costs and Shocks: An Equilibrium Model of the Oil Industry‘, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 12047. CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/dp12047

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