A user's guide to the M.I.T. world energy demand data base

Prepared in association with the Sloan School of Management and the Dept. of EconomicsNational Science Foundation under Grant #GSF SIA75-0073

Progress on analysis of the world oil market

A six-month report to the National Science Foundation on the project "Analysis of the world oil market", Contract no. SIA75-0073

The supply of North Sea oil

This paper represents a collective effort by the Supply Analysis Group of the M.I.T. World Oil Project and was partly supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant no. SIA75-00739.U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant no. SIA75-00739

Oil supply forecasting using disaggregated pool analysis

Prepared in association with the Sloan School of Management and the Dept. of EconomicsNational Science Foundation Grant no. SIA75-00739, Grant no. SIA74-22773 and U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration Contract no. E(11-1)-307

Rethinking energy statecraft: United States foreign policy and the changing geopolitics of energy

The United States Administration has an opportunity to foster a new energy statecraft based on the realities of a dynamic and rapidly-changing global energy marketplace. The geopolitical considerations of this energy transition are not well-explored. Additionally, the recent renaissance of oil and gas in the US has reinforced the alluring notion that energy independence and national energy security are the same thing. But the global nature of energy markets expose this notion as utterly misleading. A re-envisaged energy statecraft would utilize a variety of US foreign policy and multilateral tools to reform the international energy sector, protect the global energy marketplace, and spur investments in new generation and innovation. These steps require building an integrated approach to the multiple energy-security challenges

Business under adverse home country institutions: The case of international sanctions against Myanmar

We expand the institutional perspective of international business by exploring the range of institutions outside the host country that influence international business. We use a critical case, Myanmar, to explore the dynamics of institutional constraints and the reaction of business to such constraints. Our in-depth case analysis focuses on four industries for the period 1996–2011. On this basis, we develop the concept of ‘low profile strategy’ and propose a conceptual framework of home country pressures influencing multinational enterprises’ international operation, and the variation of their impact across industries and firms. This framework provides a foundation for future work on the extra-territorial effects of institutions in international business

Energy and Climate Implications for Agricultural Nutrient Use Efficiency

Energy and climate change are beginning to dominate the global political agenda and will drive policy formation that will shape the future of agriculture. Energy issues threaten national security and economic stability, as well as access to low-cost nutrient inputs for agriculture. Climate change has the potential to cause serious disruption to agricultural productivity. Paradoxically, nutrient use in agriculture to increase crop yields has the potential to negatively impact climate. This chapter will discuss recent and future energy and climate trends, the relationships between agricultural nutrient use efficiency and biofuels, and how global land limitations will shape agriculture in the future. Comparative gross energy yield and nitrogen use efficiency for ethanol production from crop residue, switchgrass, grain sorghum, sweet sorghum, and corn grain is presented, showing small differences in nitrogen use efficiency, but large differences in gross energy yields. In addition to considering the need to increase crop productivity to meet the demands of a growing population and bioenergy, agricultural nutrient use efficiency must be reconsidered with respect to the important energy and climate challenges shaping agriculture today