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  • 1982
  • Working Paper

Pattern of OPEC Capital Flows

By: S. L. Hayes III, Dwight B. Crane and Elaine C. Ide
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  • April 1988 (Revised December 1988)
  • Case

OPEC and the World Oil Industry

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  • April 1996
  • Case

Controlling International Oil (B): The Rise and Fall of OPEC (Abridged)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Debora L. Spar
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry
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  • January 1995
  • Case

Controlling International Oil (B): The Rise and Fall of OPEC

By: Debora L. Spar and Richard H.K. Vietor
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry
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  • November 2018 (Revised April 2019)
  • Technical Note

Saudi Arabia: A Brief Background

By: Kristin Fabbe, Natalie Kindred and Safwan Al-Amin
This note provides a brief overview of the history of Saudi Arabia as well as the economic and political context in 2018. The note is an essential supplement to the case “Almarai Company: Milk and Modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” HBS No. 719-020, but is... View Details
Keywords: Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia; Public Policy; Economic Development; Monarchy; Islam; Gulf; GCC; Business And Government; Vision 2030; National Strategy; Economic Diversification; OPEC; Oil; Energy Policy; Strategy; Government and Politics; Policy; Diversification; Economy; Energy; History; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
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  • March 2002 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Saudi Arabia: Getting the House in Order

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
Provides a vehicle to explore Islamic development and political issues within BGIE (business, government, and international economy). Set in early 2002, the case focuses on Crown Prince Abdullah's efforts to liberalize a failing rentier state, that had been dependent... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Development Economics; Non-Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; Leading Change; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
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  • June 2019
  • Case

The Shale Revolution: America's Energy Independence?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Howaida Kamel
The shale revolution has upended oil and gas markets for nearly a decade and has positioned the U.S. to become a net energy exporter by 2020. Technological improvements pushed productivity forward which has had positive overall positive affects for the U.S. economy.... View Details
Keywords: Shale Oil; Shale Gas; LNG; Energy Policy; Drilling Technology; Energy; Trade; Economics; Macroeconomics; Policy; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Middle East
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  • July 2009
  • Article

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
We use oil price fluctuations to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its short-run effect on aggregate... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Aid; Money
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  • Research Summary

Book in progress

Expanding on my work on BP, I am starting a new book on the transformation of the major international oil companies since the 1970s. Prior to that, the oil majors largely controlled the international flow of oil, which was channelled through their vertically... View Details

  • 2007
  • Working Paper

How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

By: Eric D. Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed and Charles Cohen
We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how aid is spent by tracking its... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Asia
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  • 15 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen
  • 23 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

Exporting Countries' so-called spare production capacity—that is, the amount of production OPEC (which accounts for 60 percent of petroleum traded internationally) can bring online within 30 days and sustain for at least 90. Spare... View Details
Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

have oil bear its true costs and the international political consensus to break the OPEC cartel, the US government and the American people must learn to accept the magnitude of this problem and its yearly drain on our economy. To break... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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