[open-economics] Getting involved in a working group

Mon Feb 2 15:36:36 UTC 2015

Hello Samira and Rodney,

First of all, I would like to say I sincerely appreciate your interest in
the group!
You both seem to be focused in the Oil Contract theme I brought up before.
Therefore, I am proposing you to take over this project. I can
supervise/coordinate you guys in what you need but I don't know at what
extent I can help you develop it. Nevertheless, I'm here to help, of course!

I will open a new thread on the mailing list - to get things organized -
and I appreciate if you could follow up the discussion there.

Thank you so much for showing your interest!

2015-02-02 15:22 GMT+00:00 Rodney Beard <rodney.m.beard at gmail.com>:

> 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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Best Regards / Obrigado e com os melhores cumprimentos,
Gustavo
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