Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74411 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
EWI Working Paper No. 12/12
Publisher: 
Institute of Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (EWI), Köln
Abstract: 
This paper analyses whether prices and trade-flows in the international market for metallurgical coals were subject to non-competitive conduct in the period 2008 to 2010. To do so, I develop mathematical programming models – a Stackelberg model, two varieties of a Cournot model, and a perfect competition model – for computing spatial equilibria in international resource markets. Results are analysed with various statistical measures to assess prediction accuracy of the models. The results show that real market equilibria cannot be reproduced with a competitive model. However, real market outcomes can be accurately simulated with the non-competitive models suggesting that market equilibria in the international metallurgical coal trade were subject to strategic behaviour of coal exporters.
Subjects: 
metallurgical coal trade
market power
oligopoly
Stackelberg
Cournot
JEL: 
C61
L11
L13
L71
Q31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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