Unexpected price spikes in petroleum can lead to instability in markets and have a negative economic effect on sectors which rely on petroleum consumption. Sudden rises in the price of petroleum do not have to be long-term to cause negative, cascading impacts across the economy. Firms which make futures purchases or hedge against a higher price during a price spike can become insolvent when the price spike deflates. A policy is needed to buffer short-term perturbations in the petroleum market to avoid short-term price spikes. This study looks at the effects of implementing a Strategic Petroleum Market Reserve within a multi-agent Nation-State model which would utilize trading bands to determine when to buy and sell petroleum reserves. Our analysis indicates that the result of implementing this policy is a more stable petroleum market during conditions of resource scarcity.
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Mitchell, M. D., Beyeler, W. E., Antognoli, M., Kuypers, M. A., & Glass, R. J. (2013). A policy of strategic petroleum market reserves. In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST (Vol. 126 LNICST, pp. 234–243). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03473-7_21
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