Status Quo Effects in Bargaining: An Empirical Analysis of OPEC

Kyle Hyndman

Industrial Organization from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We conduct an event analysis on OPEC quota announcements to determine their impact on the stock returns in the oil industry. We find that announcements to reduce the quota are followed by positive excess returns over pre-announcement levels, announcements of no action are met with negative excess returns and announcements to increase the quota have no significant impact on stock market returns. This suggests that there is an asymmetric ability on the part of OPEC to secure agreements. In particular, when demand has increased, agreements are easily forthcoming, while when times are bad the probability of a disagreement is substantially higher. We present further empirical as well as anecdotal evidence to support our interpretation. A bargaining model with one-sided private information which generates such predictions is also discussed. We also show that our model explains observed patterns in cheating by OPEC countries.

Keywords: Status Quo; OPEC; Collusion; Disagreement; Bargaining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 D82 L13 L71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2005-11-29
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Working Paper: Status Quo Effects In Bargaining: An Empirical Analysis of OPEC (2004)
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