Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153289 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 855
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The rapid rise in the price of crude oil between 2004 and the summer of 2006 are the subject of debate. This paper investigates the factors that might have contributed to the oil price increase in addition to demand and supply for crude oil, by expanding a model for crude oil prices to include refinery utilization rates, a non-linear effect of OPEC capacity utilization, and conditions in futures markets as explanatory variables. Together, these factors allow the model to perform well relative to forecasts implied by the far month contracts on the New York Mercantile Exchange and are able to account for much of the rise in crude oil prices between 2004 and 2006.
Subjects: 
Oil prices
OPEC
Refinery industry
JEL: 
C53
Q41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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