Bianca Sarbu

Ownership and Control of Oil (eBook, PDF)

Explaining Policy Choices across Producing Countries

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Produktbeschreibung

Ownership and Control of Oil examines government decisions about how much control to exert over the petroleum industry, focusing on the role of National Oil Companies in the production of crude oil since the nationalizations in the 1970s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317695448
• Artikelnr.: 40884231

Autorenporträt

Bianca Sarbu is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Her research spans the field of energy studies with a particular focus on the oil industry, National Oil Companies and International Oil Companies, political and country risks, and the political economy of oil producing countries. For the 2011/ 2012 academic year, Bianca was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington DC, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Rethinking the Ownership and Control of Oil 1. The Rising and Waning
Star of IOCs 2. Empirical Puzzle and Research Question. The Picture since
the 1970s 3. The Research Relevance 4. Roadmap 2. Upstream Sector Policy in
the Oil Industry 1. The Political Economy of the Oil Sector 1.1. The
Institutional Set-Up for Policy-Making in the Oil Sector 1.2. The
Commercial versus Non-Commercial Ends of the Range 2. Upstream Sector
Policy 2.1. Conceptual Insights 2.2. State Control versus Economic
Performance 2.3. Upstream Sector Policy Tools 2.3.1. NOC Creation .2.3.2.
Other Tools 2.3.2.1. Legal Arrangements 2.3.2.2. Fiscal Systems 3. Current
Readings of Energy Studies and Theory Development 1. Review of Drivers and
Drives in the Energy Sector 1.1. Technical Explanations 1.2. Economic
Explanations 1.3. Institutional Explanations 1.3.1. Domestic Institutions
1.3.1.1. Preferences in the Domestic Arena 1.3.1.2. Domestic Institutional
Constraints 1.3.2. International Institutions 2. The Analytical Framework -
Explaining Oil Upstream Sector Policies Worldwide 2.1. The Context 2.2.
Domestic Constraints 2.3. Hypotheses 4. A Statistical Analysis of Oil
Upstream Sector Policies across the World 1. The Sample 1.1. Sampling
Criteria 1.2. Data Construction 2. Data Operationalization and Data Sources
2.1. Dependent Variable: 'De Facto' Control as Ratio 2.2. Independent
Variables 2.3. Control Variables 3. Statistical Tools 4. Results 4.1. The
Context 4.2. Domestic Constraints 4.3. Alternative Explanations 5.
Conclusions to the Statistical Analysis 5. Mirroring the Cases of Saudi
Arabia and Abu Dhabi 1. Case Selection 2. Primary Data Collection through
Semi-Structured Interviews 3. Closed Upstream Sector: Saudi Arabia 3.1.
Historical Contingencies 3.2. The Analytical Framework against the Saudi
Empirics 3.2.1. The Context 3.2.2. Domestic Constraints 4. Open Upstream
Sector: Abu Dhabi 4.1. Historical Contingencies 4.2. The Analytical
Framework against Abu Dhabi's Empirics 4.2.1. The Context 4.2.2. Domestic
Constraints 5. Conclusions to the Case Studies 6. Conclusions 1.
Comparative Results of the Empirical Analysis 2. Revised Analytical
Framework 3. Final Remarks 3.1. Contributions, Limitations, and Research
Ways Forward 3.2. Quo Vadis?