Recent Modelling Approaches in Applied Energy Economics

Bjerkholt, Olav; Olsen, O.; Vislie, Jon

ISBN 10: 0412353407 / ISBN 13: 9780412353406

Published by Chapman and Hall, 1990

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This collection of 13 articles on the European gas market and the management of national petroleum resources uses up-to-date information and advanced analytic techniques to investigate energy issues of considerable policy interest. Series: International Studies in Economic Modelling. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 586. . 1990. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Recent Modelling Approaches in Applied Energy Economics
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0412353407
• ISBN 13: 9780412353406
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

construction. Naturally, we are open to suggestions from all readers of, and contributors to, the series regarding its approach and content. Finally, I would like to thank all those who have helped the launch of this series. The encouraging response received from authors who have contributed the forthcoming volumes and from the subscribers to the series has indicated the need for such a publication. Homa Motamen-Scobi London December 1987 Preface In 1990 both OPEC and the OECD will celebrate their thirtieth anntvers­ aries. OPEC was founded - rather unnoticed - by oil-producing countries still struggling to gain control over national petroleum resources. Future members were still under colonial rule. The foremost aim of the new organization - years before it was able to make metropolitan newspaper headlines - was stabilizing oil prices. Stability in those days meant prevent­ ing oil prices from falling in real terms. The OECD was formed by mostly mature industrial economies marking the normalization of the postwar international economy after years of reconstruction, strict trade regulations, etc. The aim of the new organization was to promote 'the highest sustainable growth and employment' in member countries. Incidentally, 1960 was also the year which gave birth to a more loosely defined block in the world community, namely the underdeveloped countries, qS the African colonial empires finally broke up. The two organizations became adversaries in the 1970s in the power struggle over the energy flows of the world.

Review

Presents comprehensive modeling work in different economic disciplines - Petroleum Technology; ..considerable value to those interested in the construction of economic models and in the study of how such models function. - Energy Policy; All in all this is a very readable book with some very useful methodology and interesting conclusions Energy Studies review