Thesis (M.A.)--Jāmiʻat al-Qāhirah. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-237).

The problem with which this paper is concerned is that of examining some ideas and predictions of some American economists about the survival of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). This paper is divided into three parts; the first part includes the introduction, examines the importance of oil, and analyzes the history of the oil industry. This part is composed of Chapters I and II. Part two examines OPEC's formation and objectives and the cartel theory with concentration on OPEC. This part is composed of Chapters III and IV. Part three analyzes some economists' ideas regarding OPEC survival. It examines the economic and political realities of OPEC during the last two decades and discusses its present problems. This paper concludes that OPEC is a strong and sustained cartel.

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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa))--Naval Postgraduate School, December 2008. / Thesis Advisor(s): Looney, Robert E. "December 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on February 2, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-70). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin, 1966. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 299-314).

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Cette thèse analyse comment les fluctuations du prix du pétrole affectent les économies des pays exportateurs de produits de base. Plus précisément, l'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier les impacts macroéconomiques, financiers et environnementaux des fluctuations des prix du pétrole, en accordant une attention particulière à l'hypothèse de la monnaie du pétrole. À cette fin, cette thèse se compose de trois chapitres. Les premier et deuxième chapitres portent sur le taux de change réel des devises de plusieurs pays exportateurs de pétrole. Le troisième chapitre explore les liens entre le prix des biocarburants et le compte courant des pays émergents et en développement exportant ou important des matières premières agricoles contrôlant l'effet non linéaire potentiel exercé par le prix du pétrole sur cette relation. Ces chapitres montrent que si le prix du pétrole a un effet macroéconomique sur les économies exportatrices de pétrole et les pays exportateurs de produits agricoles, son impact varie d'un pays à l'autre et il n'y a pas de règle unique pour décrire le fonctionnement de ces économies. / This thesis analyzes how fluctuations in the price of oil affect the economies of commodity exporting countries. More specifically, the aim of this thesis is to investigate the macroeconomic, financial and environmental impacts of oil price fluctuations, by paying particular attention to the oil currency hypothesis. To this end, this thesis is composed of three chapters. The first and second chapters deal with the real exchange rate of the currencies of several oil exporting countries. The third chapter explores the links between the price of biofuels and the current account of emerging and developing countries exporting or importing agricultural raw materials controlling for the potential nonlinear effect exerted by the price of oil on this relationship. Altogether these chapters show that while the price of oil has a macroeconomic effect on oil exporting and agricultural commodities exporting countries, its impact varies across countries and there is no one fits all rule.

Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 2003. / Title from title page screen, viewed November 15, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Mohammad Tavakoli Targhi (chair), Lawrence McBride, Hassan Mohammadi, Paul Holsinger, Tony Adedze. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-119) and abstract. Also available in print.

National Science Foundation Grant no. SIA75-00739

The objectives of this dissertation are to explain the production behavior of OPEC's member countries from 1971 to 1987 and to determine whether there was any structural shift in OPEC's production behavior after the organization attempted to assign a quota to each member. This study focused on political and social as well as economic variables, in order to overcome the misspecification of previous models. In order to achieve the above objectives, the study used the following four models, with modifications: the cartel, competitive, target revenue, and property rights models. The double log multiple linear regression technique was used to operationalize the cartel, competitive, and target revenue models; simple linear regression was used to estimate the property rights model. The cartel model was based not only on economic variables but also on social and political variables. The internal political instability of each OPEC country was measured by the number of armed attacks within the country. The structural shift in OPEC's production behavior between the 1971-1982 period and the 1983-1987 period was evaluated using the Chow-test. The Chow-test showed no significant difference between these two periods for OPEC overall or for individual members. Thus, the two periods were combined so that the study was performed for the entire 1971-1987 period. Because this period of analysis was relatively short, alternative models were applied to pool the data and thereby increase the reliability of the model estimates. A cross-sectional correlated and time-wise auto-regressive model (CCTA) was selected to pool the data and to estimate OPEC's production coefficients. Then each individual OPEC member's production model was estimated and compared to the pooled model. The results indicate that OPEC behaved as a cartel, and that a partial market-sharing hypothesis was significant for all 11 OPEC members. These findings indicate that OPEC was a loose cartel, with only partially effective cooperation on production decisions. Political instability was found to be significant (at the 10-percent level) overall, and it negatively affected production. It was also significant at the 5-percent level for the price-pusher group (Iran, Venezuela, and Algeria). This group was also the only one pooled using least squares with dummy variables (LSDV), because of its common slope and different intercepts. Overall results suggest that OPEC members were basing their production decisions on crude oil prices, excess production capacity, and each member's share of total OPEC output.