The McGraw Hill Companies [Platts OIL Derivatives methodology guide]
(General character of Japanese oil market structure)
An oil market price may rise and will be a thing of the character which originally accelerates crude-oil investment in that sense in the future [ crude oil ] also from a shell-oil[peak theory].
Even if it sees realignment of the past oil trade, it is far from the stability of a market condition, and price fluctuation has been the feature of the industrial growth.
Although the postwar period came and distribution-liberalization and also import were also liberalized to the private sector when the petroleum policy of Japan was looked at here, import is a political rights and it did not become an original competitive market.
(Platt's OIL Derivatives methodology guide)
Although crude-oil derivatives are way methods of a price fluctuation hedge, In Japan,for heavy oil, oligopolization increases much also by a government purchase and oil sale former, since import competition is loose in Japan oil market, price elasticity is also small and the price also serves as a market configuration with favorable imputation to consumers.
It is not desirable that misses technique development of derivatives.
Platts's text is introduced here.











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