Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121951 
Year of Publication: 
Dec-2014
Citation: 
[Journal:] The Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies [Volume:] 39 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Council for Social and Economic Studies [Place:] Washington D.C. [Year:] 2014-12 [Pages:] 436-466
Publisher: 
Council for Social and Economic Studies, Washington D.C.
Abstract: 
Due to the recent drop in oil prices, there is a strong interest in the influence of the shale revolution on the global supply and demand of hydrocarbon fuels. Consequently, the attention of many economists and industry analysts is drawn to the technological, institutional and regulatory aspects of hydrocarbon production from shale deposits in the USA. The authors analyze factors facilitating the shale gas revolution in the USA, and find that in addition to the obvious factors, such as high prices for gas at the beginning of the 2000s, an important underlying factor was the high level of institutional development in the USA. This was characterized by a legal system that recognized property rights in mineral resources, the existence of a wide variety of business entities operating in the oil and gas sector (including small businesses), and a favorable tax regime. The article presents the results of econometric modeling that traces the USA’s transition from almost exclusively extracting conventional gas to the extraction of unconventional gas.
Subjects: 
unconventional gas
shale gas revolution
innovative development
institution
Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version
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