[open-economics] Getting involved in a working group

Mon Feb 2 15:22:26 UTC 2015

Hi all,

have been following this with interest, I have a resource economics
background. It might be worth mentioning some relevant literature at this
point to structure the oil contract problem a bit. From what I saw of what
had been done on this already there seemed little connection to the
economic literature on the subject. However, the database of contracts
seems very useful. Some literature that appears relevant (apologies it's
not open access):

 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1803310
http://jleo.oxfordjournals.org/content/15/2/526.short

There is of-course another way of thinking about oil contracts which is in
terms of contracts in the commodities markets (e.g. the ICE) but the link
to the contracts database suggested this literature to me.  The original
attempt seemed to be vague as to what type of contract was being considered.

Best wishes

Rodney Beard

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Samira Niknami <samiraster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Gustavo,
>
> First of all I want to thank you for taking up the responsibility of
> running this group, it's been inactive for quite a while. Next, I'd like to
> say that I'm eager to join the working group which is about developing a
> model of an oil contract.
>
> Regards,
> Samira
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>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> My plans to restart this work group consists in calling back some of the
>> guys that were once involved in the group and get new people involved.
>> This
>> is a noble cause and it is not an easy task to get people involved. I'm
>> sure after we get enough resources (well, mostly human for now), projects
>> will start to flow naturally.
>>
>> Therefore, one of the best ways to get new people is by showing activity
>> and showing off great results. Unfortunately, we don't have enough
>> resources to fulfil some requests (for now, as far as I know) like this
>> one
>> <http://discuss.okfn.org/t/idea-brainstorm/179/2>. Considering our lack
>> of
>> resources, I believe our best bet is to try to get some of our old
>> projects
>> updated and running.
>> Personally, I find the failed bank tracker the best fit because it is
>> simpler and I have already thought about what can we do about it
>> <http://discuss.okfn.org/t/project-failed-bank-tracker/155/1>. However,
>> apparently nobody is interested on that. Please let me know what you think
>> of my suggestions - either on the forums or by email.
>>
>> I also found out that, previously, the group has tried to develop a
>> theoretical
>> model of an oil contract
>> <http://openeconomics.net/2013/10/22/open-model-of-an-oil-contract/>.
>> Seems
>> that project didn't go very far. Do you think we could revive it? Seems we
>> have this  crisis in that industry so it looks like a great opportunity.
>> It can be very troublesome, but if we have enough economists in the group,
>> I am pretty sure we can develop something very interesting, under CC
>> licenses, and prove it using open data. There are a lot of open groups
>> that
>> can help us on that, like Open Oil. Open Data, Open Spending and Open
>> Government (just a few). The idea would be to try and explain how these
>> firms behave in their industry and what really counts when they define
>> their prices (or quantities). What are your thoughts?
>>
>> I also thought about using open data to investigate about the
>> effectiveness
>> of the austerity measures the European Union has implemented throughout
>> time, since 2008. What do you guys think?
>>
>> I am running out of ideas for new projects. I would really appreciate your
>> help for the time being. Since I am still waiting to get access to our
>> social media channels (namely, our Twitter account)  and website, this is
>> the perfect time to develop a project and publish it, or even advertise
>> it,
>> after I get access to the social media channels. How we will proceed in
>> regard to any project we decide to go for, we will discuss that in another
>> email. Let's focus on getting a project to get started and then we will
>> arrange our necessary conditions.
>> Feel free to brought to discuss ANY project you may have think of. Maybe
>> something in your daily job or something you can use to extend your
>> master's thesis/research paper.
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>> Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
>> Gustavo
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