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COVID-19 and the Big Oil Price Crash: Exploring the Anatomy

In: Sustainable Development Insights from India

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  • Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay

    (Indian Institute of Management)

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Crude oil prices have fallen drastically since the beginning of 2020 driven by the lethal double blow of economic contraction caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and suspension of an OPEC-NOPEC (OPEC+) deal due to defection of Russians. Eventually a price war got waged by Saudi Arabia and led to a protracted disequilibrium and volatility in the world oil market. The worst fallouts could be observed when Western Texas Intermediate, the benchmark crude oil futures price plunged below zero for the first time on 20th April 2020 and made it a Black Monday. The huge volatility made energy companies file for their bankruptcy; the shale in the US and the much-hyped American energy dominance got severely battered; caused huge job losses; and bruised the financial institutions that have been backing these industries. The coupling of unprecedented demand and supply shocks tested the oil market and its storage capacity to the limits. To gauge these issues and the imbalances that has been building in the system more carefully, the chapter examines the changing dynamics of oil markets in the COVID-19 affected world in deeper details.

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  • Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, 2021. "COVID-19 and the Big Oil Price Crash: Exploring the Anatomy," India Studies in Business and Economics, in: Purnamita Dasgupta & Anindita Roy Saha & Robin Singhal (ed.), Sustainable Development Insights from India, pages 239-257, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isbchp:978-981-33-4830-1_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-33-4830-1_12
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    1. Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, 2022. "Oil and Gas Markets and COVID-19: A Critical Rumination on Drivers, Triggers, and Volatility," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(8), pages 1-21, April.
    2. Abuzayed, Bana & Al-Fayoumi, Nedal, 2021. "Risk spillover from crude oil prices to GCC stock market returns: New evidence during the COVID-19 outbreak," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 58(C).

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