From annual data for 19721979, William Nordhaus estimated the following model to explain the OPECs oil price

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From annual data for 1972–1979, William Nordhaus estimated the following model to explain the OPEC’s oil price behavior (standard errors in parentheses).

t = 0.3x1t + 5.22x2t

se = (0.03)     (0.50)

where

y = difference between current and previous year’s price (dollars per barrel)
x1 = difference between current year’s spot price and OPEC’s price in the previous year
x2 = 1 for 1974 and 0 otherwise
Interpret this result and show the results graphically. What do these results suggest about OPEC’s monopoly power?


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Basic Econometrics

ISBN: 978-0073375779

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Authors: Damodar N. Gujrati, Dawn C. Porter

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