The international oil market : a case of trilateral oligopoly

Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-7 The Structure of the Petroleum Sector....Pages 8-22 The Price of Oil: Main Interpretations and their Theoretical Background....Pages 23-46 The Oil Companies....Pages 47-79 The Oil-producing Countries and OPEC....Pages 80-93 The United States and the Other Consuming Countries....Pages 94-117 Some Likely Future Scenarios and the New Oligopolistic Equilibria....Pages 118-139 Back Matter....Pages 140-180