Publications

The Volatility of Crude Oil Prices and the Mitigation of Oil Price Risk

The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the greatest challenges of modern times. More than two years since its onset, the global oil market has yet to regain any semblance of balance or stability. The future remains extremely uncertain. The pandemic…

Decarbonizing the Residential Sector: How Prominent is Household Energy-Saving Behavior in Decision Making?

IAEE

Fateh Belaïd

Chapter 5: China’s energy investment through the lens of the Belt and Road Initiative

Dongmei Chen, Philipp Galkin

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): Progress Amid Controversies Overview of the BRI President Xi Jinping announced the BRI in 2013 during his official visits to Kazakhstan and Indonesia. The vision for a Silk Road Economic Belt connecting Central Asia…

Chen, Dongmei

Galkin, Philipp

Oil Rents and Non-oil Economic Growth in CIS Oil Exporters. The Role of Financial Development

Science Direct

Fakhri Hasanov

What Would it Take for the People of Riyadh City to Shift From Their Cars to the Proposed Metro?

Science Direct

Ahm Mehbub Anwar, Abu Toasin Oakil, Abdelrahman Muhsen, Anvita Arora

Exploring the Effect of a Transportation Subsidy on Saudi Arabia’s Main Labor Force Indicators

Mansour Al Rajhi, Cian Mulligan

As part of the strategic roadmap for Saudi Vision 2030, the Saudi Arabian government set a goal in 2017 to increase female participation in the workforce from 22% to 30%. This goal falls under objective 4, Increase Employment, of the…

Mansour Al Rajhi

Mulligan, Cian

CO2 Emissions Reduction Progress and Future Perspectives in Aviation

CO2 emissions from aviation are a priority for policymakers, researchers, entities, and governments worldwide. Traditional approaches to analyzing the aviation sector must be modified because aviation practices are no longer supply driven. In fact, the recent increase in environmental awareness…

Seasonal Adjustment of GDP Time Series – Private Sector Component

Jeremy Rothfield, Mansour Al Rajhi

The General Authority for Statistics (GaStat) categorizes Saudi Arabia’s gross domestic product (GDP) into institutional oil and non-oil segments. The institutional non-oil segment can be further broken down into institutional government and institutional private sectors. For analysts, the seasonal adjustment…

Rothfield, Jeremy

Mansour Al Rajhi

How Responsive Are New Car Buyers in India and China to Factors Driving Fuel Consumption?

Prateek Bansal, Rubal Dua

China and India, the world’s two most populous developing economies, are also among the largest automotive markets and carbon emitters. To reduce carbon emissions from the passenger car sector, both countries have considered various policy levers that affect fuel price,…

Bansal, Prateek

Dua, Rubal

Regional Energy Cooperation: Opportunities to Enhance the Saudi-India Relationship

Yagyavalk Bhatt, Nora Nezamuddin

Saudi Arabia and India, two of the fastest growing economies globally, play important roles in South Asia and the Middle East, respectively. Saudi-India relations have started to acquire a strategic dimension owing to the countries’ growing business opportunities, rising investment…

Bhatt, Yagyavalk

Nezamuddin, Nora

Electric Vehicle Subsidies: Time to Accelerate or Pump the Brakes?

Science Direct

Rubal Dua, Tamara Sheldon, Omar Al Harbi

Can Circularity-Based Approaches Prevent a Cobalt Supply Shortfall?

Rubal Dua

Electric vehicle batteries rely heavily on a small number of critical minerals, including cobalt. Cobalt metal prices have doubled over the past year as a result of a mismatch between supply and demand, particularly for electric car batteries (Hume 2022).

Dua, Rubal

The Ban on Long-Term Natural Gas Contracts for the European Union: A Double-Edged Sword?

Zlata Sergeeva

Long-term natural gas contracts are necessary market instruments that provide supply security for customers and demand security for producers. Nevertheless, the European Commission recently announced a plan to ban long-term contracts for unabated fossil gas after 2049. This study shows…

Sergeeva, Zlata

Real Gross Domestic Income for Saudi Arabia From 1986 to 2021

Walid Matar

A country’s national income is defined as the total market value of its output. The most used measure for national income is gross domestic product (GDP). One way to estimate GDP for a country is to sum its government consumption,…

Matar, Walid

Understanding Phantom Oil

Phantom oil is oil that is deliberately moved from legally recognized sources or traded in the black market. It is also frequently referred to as illegal, illicit, tacit, or unregistered oil. This oil is generally concealed from the energy community…

Saudi-China Collaboration on Renewable Energy Supply Chains

Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have reinforced their interest in enhancing domestic value creation from renewable energy industries while striving to achieve their green energy transition targets. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has identified…

Accelerating the Demand for and International Trade in Low-Carbon Hydrogen

Hydrogen is projected to play an important role in meeting decarbonization targets. Hydrocarbon-rich countries perceive this as an opportunity to decarbonize existing assets and monetize undeveloped hydrocarbon reserves. Meanwhile, non-traditional energy exporters rich in renewable energy resources view hydrogen as…

Saudi Arabia’s Potential to Further Hydrogen Use in the Maritime Sector

Nora Nezamuddin, Rami Shabaneh, Ahm Mehbub Anwar

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow focussed on advancing low-carbon fuels to reach emissions abatement targets. The conference also reaffirmed the goals of the Paris Agreement: to secure global net-zero emissions by mid-century and limit the…

Nezamuddin, Nora

Shabaneh, Rami

Anwar, Ahm Mehbub

Impacts of Global Climate Policies on Middle Eastern Oil Exporters: A Review of Economic Implications and Mitigation Strategies

Salaheddine Soummane, Aisha Al-Sarihi

Climate policies are tightening in an effort to curb carbon dioxide emissions. As a result, global oil demand may peak and gradually decline, causing oil prices to fall. A structural fall in oil prices may have serious implications for Middle…

Soummane, Salaheddine

Al-Sarihi, Aisha

Modeling final energy demand and the impacts of energy price reform in Saudi Arabia

Science Direct

Anwar Gasim