The 1986 Oil Price Crisis: Economic Effects and Policy Responses

pp.286, 36 tables, 18 figures

The papers presented in this book assess the implications of the new era of low oil prices for energy-dependent countries (producers as well as consumers), energy industries, the international eco0nomy and the indebtedness of third world countries. The papers, given at the Oxford Energy Seminar in September 1986, reveal the initial reactions of important decision makers in industry and governments, and of eminent experts, to the consequences of the oil price collapse.

A distinctive feature of this book is that presents diverse views on the same set of issues, the views of parties with different, and often conflicting, interests in the energy world.

Considering the instability which characterises the world petroleum market, and the threat of another oil price crisis, the issues in this book are likely to remain topical for a number of years.

Contents

1.      The Oil Industry, Energy Markets and the Price Collapse

2.      OPEC Supply and Pricing Policies

3.      The Oil Price Collapse and Non-OPEC Exporters

4.      Natural Gas and Nuclear Power

5.      The Oil Price Collapse and the Industrialized Oil-consuming Countries

6.      The Price Collapse and the Arab World

7.      The Financial Problems of Developing Countries

[Browse the bookshop: Country Studies | Developing Countries | Electricity & Nuclear | Energy and the Environment | Energy Economics | Finance | Gas | Oil | the whole catalogue - very long page]

© Oxford Institute for Energy Studies | design by oxogen