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Fall 2008 About the Seminar: Until 1997, the upstream activities in Brazil had been conducted by a state-owned company, PETROBRAS, when a new regulation for the petroleum sector was approved ending a 42-year monopoly of oil and gas exploration and production. Since 1998, the Brazilian regulatory agency has been auctioning acreage for petroleum exploration rights. This model is attracting the investments of foreigner and small domestic oil companies, as well as the positive results achieved in the last 10 years proves the new system efficiency. About the Speaker: Monica Rebelo Rodriguez is a Visiting Scholar at the Economics and Business Division. Since 2006 she has been taking her PhD in Petroleum Sciences at Campinas State University -SP, Brazil, the same university as she took her MSc in Petroleum Geology and Engineering in 1993. Both studies were sponsored by PETROBRAS – the Brazilian Petroleum Company she works for since 1987.
Abstract: Global companies in the extractive industries are highly And arguably, commodity prices are not the ones waiting for an outcome in About the Speaker: Josh Crumb is a Senior Business Analyst for Lundin
Date: September 18 About the Seminar: During the past five years, industry analysts have proclaimed that metal prices are in the early phase of a ‘super cycle,’ driven primarily by Chinese industrial expansion. Academic economists have generally been very skeptical about the presence of long cycles. A time-series econometric analysis by Cuddington and Jerrett (2008), however, has used band-pass filtering techniques to isolate super cycles in the prices of six metals traded on the London Metal Exchange (the ‘LME6’). This analysis extends the search for super-cycle behavior to lesser known “minor” metals with characteristics unlike base metals and bulk commodities. There is evidence of super-cycle behavior in minor metals, especially towards the latter half of the 1900s. About the Speaker: Daniel Jerrett is a 4th year PhD candidate in the Mineral Economics program. His research interests focus primarily on commodity price behavior where his concentration has been primarily measuring and modeling commodity price cycles (Both long-term and business cycles). His other research interests include financial time series applications toward commodity prices. Daniel has worked in the investment industry in both research and trading capacities. Date: September 17 Date: September 11 About the Speaker: Tor Arnt Johnsen is Visiting Scholar at the Economics and Business department. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Oslo. From 1988 to 2002, he worked in the Research Department, Statistics Norway. Since 2002, he works for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate which is the energy market regulator in Norway. He has a part-time position at the Norwegian School of Management BI.
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