Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 13

28-March-2005

The Causes Of Crude Oil Price Volatility

By Bassam Fattouh

The following article was written forMEES by Dr Fattouh, Lecturer in Financial Studies, Centre for Financial and Management Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (Bf11@soas.ac.uk). Dr Fattouh wishes to thank Professor Robert Mabro and Dr Robert Skinner for their useful suggestions. All remaining errors are mine.

In the past few years, the world...