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Strategic Interdependence in European East-West Gas Trade: A Hierarchical Stackelberg Game Approach

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  • Wafik Grais
  • Kangbin Zheng

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The current and potential benefits of European East-West gas trade are enormous for all participants. The new and more complex structure of the natural gas transit system, as emerged with political and economic changes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, has created uncertainties about the interdependence and interactions among the participants. Using a Stackelberg game with three layers of players (suppliers, transiters and importers), this paper establishes a framework to analyze rational behaviors of the participants and reasonable ways to formulate transparent, flexible, and incentive-compatible contracts. This framework is also used to show how to modify the trade contract to accommodate changes in the gas trade environment. Improving predictability of the players' reactions to external changes can enhance the reliability of gas trade and allow its expansion to benefit all participants.

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  • Wafik Grais & Kangbin Zheng, 1996. "Strategic Interdependence in European East-West Gas Trade: A Hierarchical Stackelberg Game Approach," The Energy Journal, , vol. 17(3), pages 61-84, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:enejou:v:17:y:1996:i:3:p:61-84
    DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol17-No3-5
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