Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154288 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1855
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the so-called “shale oil revolution”on oil prices and economic growth. We employ a general equilibrium model of the world oil market in which Saudi Arabia is the dominant firm, with the rest of the producers as a competitive fringe. Our results suggest that most of the expected increase in US oil supply due to the shale oil revolution has already been incorporated into oil prices and that it will produce an additional increase of 0.2 percent in the GDP of oil importers in the period 2010-2018. We also employ the model to analyse the collapse in oil prices in the second half of 2014 and conclude that it was mainly due to positive unanticipated supply shocks.
Subjects: 
general equilibrium
Saudi Arabia
shale oil
JEL: 
Q41
Q47
E17
ISBN: 
978-92-899-1668-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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