LOG-LINEAR MODELS OF PETROLEUM PRODUCT DEMAND: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY by Ross J. Heide July 1978 MIT-EL-79-006WP 4 Log-Linear Models of Petroleum Product Demand: An International Study 1. Introduction The purpose of this work is to describe a set of log-linear models of petroleum product demand and to document the estimation results. This effort is part of an overall study to understand and model the world oil market. As results obtained here will be used to construct portions of a larger simulation model, this paper is intended to serve as a reference to the methodology employed in obtaining the results. More encompassing and sophisticated translog models have been used to analyze total energy demand and oil's share of the demand for about ten major Western countries. The relatively simple log-linear specifi- cation for demand equations is used here for two purposes. The first is to provide preliminary estimates of demand response to price and income changes in the major consuming ("primary") countries for the main product groups. The intent is to provide a starting point by constructing equations which can be used in a simulation model and can be replaced as other segments of the overall study are completed. The second purpose is to provide "final" equations and estimates for what will be referred to as "secondary" countries. These are coun- tries which because of data availability problems and/or relatively less significant quantities of demand are placed outside the scope of current plans for more detailed modeling. See Pindyck [1], [2]. -2- No explicit distinction is made between "primary" and "secondary" countries in this segment of the study. Both secondary and primary countries are pooled together.to obtain joint estimates. But if sensible results were obtained using the translog formulation, efforts were more readily redirected if reasonable results could not be obtained for loglinear models. The 20 countries represented in this work are listed below: Europe Asia Austria Belgium Denmark France Greece Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom West Germany Japan North America Canada United States South America Brazil Mexico Exhibit 1 shows their relative size as oil consumers. The above 20 countries accounted for 82.3% (based on weight) of the 1974 total oil demand, excluding the U.S.S.R., Eastern Europe and China, or 68.1% of the world total including those countries with controlled economies. -3- Exhibit 1 World Oil Consumption 1975 and 1974 Million Tonnes 1975 1974 U.S.A. 764.2 82.5 Canada Total North America 846.7 Latin America 173.9 [TOTAL WESTERN HEMISPHERE 1,020.6 10.6 Austria 27.1 Belgium & Luxembourg Denmark 15.5 5.2 Eire 11.9 Finland France 109.3 Greece 10.2 0.6 Iceland Italy 95.6 34.8 Netherlands 8.0 Norway 6.8 Portugal 43.4 Spain Sweden 26.4 12.5 Switzerland 13.6 Turkey United Kingdom 92.1 West Germany 128.6 11.4 Yugoslavia 1.1 Cyprus/Gibraltar/Malta Total Western Euro e 664.7 Middle East 70.4 Africa 51.4 South Asia 28.5 South East Asia 81.3 Japan 239.8 35.6 Australasia U.S.S.R. 370.0 84.0 Eastern Europe China 55.5 TOTAL EASTERN HEMISPHERE ;1,681.2 World 2,701.8 WORLD (Excl. U.S.S.R., 2,192.3 E. Europe & China) 782.6 84.8 867.4 171.3 1,038.7 10.7 28.1 16.0 5.4 11.6 121.0 9.4 0.6 100.8 35.4 7.7 6.5 41.1 27.1 13.0 12.5 105.9 134.3 11.5 1.3 699.9 68.6 50.3 27.7 77.7 258.9 36.0 341.5 81.0 48.5 1,690.1 2,728.8 Country/Area 2,257.8 Thousand Barrels Daily Percentagef 1975 I Change Share of 1975 over T 10Q7A 1Q7n/107 17 1 It 17 V/ 13 I 4-1 Lvc- l Annual Average 28.3% -2.3% +1.9% 3.1% -2.7% +2.5% 31.4i1 -2.4% +2.0% 6.4- +i 5X +4.9%X 37.8 -1.7% +2.4% 0.4% -1.3% +2.5% 1.0% -3.4% -0.6% 0.6% -3,0% -3.6% 0.2% -3.3% +4.8% 0.4% +3.3% +2.1% 4.1% -9.7% +3.0% 0.4% +8.7% +8.7% --2.5% +0.9% 3.5% -5.1% +1.8% 1.3% -1.7% -1.0% 0.3% +4.3% -0.7% 0.2% +5.1% +8.2% 1.6% +5.7% +9.1% 1.0% -2 .5% -2.4% 0.5% -4.4% -0.1% 0.5% +9.1% +12.1% 3.4%1-13.0% -2.0% 4.8% -4.3% -0.4% -0.6% +10.3% --12.8% +1.1% 24.6% -5.0% +1.2% 2.6% +2.7% +7.3% 1.9% +2.2% +4.3% 1.0% +2.9% +1.0% 3.0% +4.7% +6.4% 8.9% -7.4% +3.8% 1.3% -0.9% +3.4% 13.7% +8.3% +7.1% 3.1% +3.7% +8.7% 2.1% +14.4% +22.6% 62.2% -0.5% +4.2% 100.0% -1.0% +3.5% 81.1% -2.9% +2.5% J1 1Q07I J1 1?07A .. I 15,845* 1,735 17.580 3 660 21240 215 545 310 105 235 2,240 205 10 1,925 710 165 140 880 530 260 275 1,875 2,665 230 20 13,540 1,390 1,050 575 1,615 4,905 750 7,480 1,725 1 105 34,135 55,375 16,150* 1,785 17.935 3 595* 21 530 215 560 320 110 230 2,460 185 15 2,015 725 160 135 820 540 270 255 2,145 2,760 235 25 14,180 1,355 1,020 560 1,540 5,270 755 6905 1,660 970 34,215 55,745 45,065 46,210 I Differences between production and consumption are accounted for by stock changes and unknown military liftings. *U.S. processing gain has been deducted from total domestic product demand. tBased on weight. 4Brazil 35.2, Mexico 29.1. **Brazil 855, Mexico 707. Source: BP Statistical Review of the World Oil Industry 1975 [4]. -4- 2. The Log-Log Specification The log-log equation sets the log of the variable to be explained equal to a linear combination of the logs of the independent variables, hence its name. log qijt The basic static demand equation for fuel i is: = aij + 0ilog ijt + Yilog Pijt + ijt (1) where j is the country index and t the time index, qi is per capita consumption of fuel i, yj is the per capita gross domestic product in constant currency units of country j, and Pij is the fuel price in real units of local currency. Adding the subscript j to the constant term (using intercept dummies) allows estimating an equation across countries with different units for the same variable. The a..'s account for scale differences because they are multiplicative terms. This is one of the conveniences of the log-log formulation, allowing pooling of various countries' time series without performing the often difficult task of conversion to a common unit of currency. Unfortunately this same property eliminates the ability to pick up inter-country differences in estimating the elasticities. But if the true elasticities are the same in the pooled countries, pooling results in more efficient estimates. Alternative poolings can be used to test for differences in elasticities across countries. By differentiating equation (1) with respect to P and y and multiplying by P/Q and y/Q respectfully, one obtains the price and income elasticities: = dq p dp - P (2) -5- ny y dq xP y dy = (3) i The elasticities can be read directly as one of the estimated coefficients and the elasticities are constant, i.e. identical for all values of q, P, and y. If q is a "habit" level of consumption, or is consumed by a capital stock, the new equilibrium level of q after a sustained change in P or y One This is a lagged adjustment process. is not reached instantaneously. type of lagged adjustment is the Koyck or geometric lag, where the adjustment that takes place in each period is a constant portion of the difference between the current level of consumption and the equilibrium or "desired" level. A dynamic version of equation (1) containing a Koyck lag is: log qijt = i'log Yjt + Yi' log Pijt ij + + Xilog qij,t-1 + ijt (4) where 1-X (O < X < 1) is the portion of adjustment between the current and equilibrium value of q that takes place in a given period. In the long-run equilibrium, which strictly speaking is reached only after an infinite number of periods, qt equals qt-l' Therefore substituting qt for qt-l in equation (4) and resolving for the log of qt results in: log q ijt + - i log Pijt + 1-X log yt (5) From this we see that the total long-run elasticities are the short-run (one period) elasticities, i and Yi, divided by (l-X). -6- The fraction of the total adjustment to the new equilibrium t periods after a maintained change in P or y at t=O is: qo - qt q0 t = 1 - t (6) qeq A useful measure when discussing and comparing lags is the median lag, T , or the value of t in equation (6) for which the fraction of the total adjustment completed equals one half. .5 = 1- T X m or T m = log (.5)/log (X) (7) For example, if X = .7 which implies a 30% adjustment to the-long-run equilibrium in each period, the median lag is approximately 1.9 periods. -7- 3. Data This section provides a brief summary of the data used in estimating the previously described equations for the twenty countries. Also presented are the methods of transforming the data into the exact forms in which they were used in the estimating equations.2 Product Quantities: The annual consumption by product type comes from two sources, each having a different category breakdown. They are each described below. The source of the quantity data for 18 countries (all except Brazil and Mexico) is OECD's Energy Statistics. For these countries there are nine fuel categories: 1. Aviation gasoline (AG) 2. Diesel fuel (DS) 3. Industrial fuel oil (INDFO) 4. Jet fuel (JF) 5. Kerosene (KS) 6. Liquified petroleum gases (LPG) 7. Motor gasoline (MG) 8. Other fuel oil -- other than industrial (RESFO) 9. Other petroleum products (FOPET) -- petroleum chemical feedstocks, fuel oil and LPG used to generate electricity and steam 2 The data employed are part of a large international data base. complete details, see Chapter 5 of the Users Guide [3]. For -8- Fuel consumption data for Brazil and Mexico were obtained from the UN's World Energy Supplies. For these two countries there are four fuel categories: 1. Fuel oil -- consumption by all sectors, also diesel fuel 2. Gasolines -- motor and aviation gasolines 3. Kerosenes -- kerosene including jet fuel 4. LPG -- Liquified petroleum gases consumed by all sectors The units of all of the above categories are Tcals per million capita per year. Tcals, a measure of the heat content of a fuel, is an abbreviation of teracalories or 1012 calories. A Tcal is the equivalent of 3.968x10 9 BTU, or approximately 685 barrels of crude oil. Prices: For the nineteen countries other than the United States the prices of all petroleum products, retail price of gas, coal, and electricity and the industrial price of gas, coal, and electricity, were obtained from the international energy statistics compiled by the Federal Energy Administration.3 In the data base the data are converted from various units to units of local currency per Tcal. Price series for jet fuel and aviation gasolines were not available for any of the twenty countries. The price of kerosene was used as a proxy for the price of jet fuel and the price of motor gasoline was used in place of the price of aviation gasoline. Although the markets are different, the products are physically very similar. Prices for the U.S. were obtained from the Bureau of Mines and Department of Commerce. Details for each series may be found in Table 5-5 of the User's Guide [3]. With the exception of Brazil and Mexico, these data are proprietary and not described in the above mentioned User's Guide. -9- For the countries with an "other petroleum products" category an average of the prices of No. 2 and No. 6 fuel oils was used to approximate the price movements of those products. When used in estimating equations, all prices are deflated using the implicit gross domestic product deflator with 1970 as a base year. Therefore, the units are constant 1970 units of local currency for Tcal. Price of Energy: In estimating the demand for fuel oils, the products most susceptible to substitution of alternative fuels, a measure of the aggregate price of energy was needed. Translog price aggregators have been esti- mated for nine countries (residential price of energy) and ten countries (industrial price of energy). countries included here. Both groups are subsets of the 18 OECD The coefficients estimated for these subsets were used with the prices of oil, gas, electricity, and coal in each country to generate a price index of energy for the entire group of 18 countries. Three indices were used: a four fuel residential index for European countries, a three fuel residential index for the U.S. and 5 Canada, and a four fuel index using industrial prices. The appropriate set of coefficients were used in each case, but no attempt was made to scale the index as the input prices were in each country's local currency. The units of the price of energy indices are not defined, but since they are constructed from nominal local currency prices, the indices are deflated (using the implicit GDP deflator) when used in the estimating 4 For a detailed description of the energy price aggregators, see Pindyck [1], [2]. Virtually no coal is used in the residential sectors of either the U.S. or Canada. - equations. 10 - The hope is that the indices capture the movement of the price of energy within each country. Other Variables: Series for gross domestic product, population, and temperature were also used. Gross domestic product data were obtained from the OECD's National Accounts and the UN's National Account Statistics. units are 1970 local currency per capita. The The implicit deflators were derived from the same sources by using the ratios of the GDP in current purchasers' values to the GDP in constant purchasers' values (1970 base year). Data for the total population of each country, used to transform fuel quantities and income to per capita bases, come from the UN Demographic Yearbook. The temperature series represent the average temperature over the five winter months (November-March) of the major city or cities of each country. The source is the U.S. Weather Bureau's Monthly Climatic Data for the World, and the units of measurement are degrees Fahrenheit. Table 1 shows the range of data available for the variables described above. The range of values used for estimation is only the intersection of the range for each variable included.6 Table 2 gives the relative consumption of each fuel category for two different years. The total consumption in 1,000's of Tcals is also shown for the same years. 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ID r. H r-i t2 H CD a f! a) a ..) C) eyey\ O ON HHir- 4.1 4. -H o Hi -N a) p. 0 O .74 a) o 4U o 0 H - 14 - 4. Statistical Results In this section we present the estimation results for the models described above. The twenty countries are pooled into five groups and alternative model specifications are explored for each product category within each group. The five groups are: 1. North America (2 countries): 2. Europe (12 countries): United States and Canada Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and West Germany 3. Southern Europe (3 countries): Greece, Spain and Turkey 4. Japan (1 country) 5. South America (2 countries): Brazil and Mexico This grouping is based upon geographic proximity and broad similarity of economic characteristics, such as degree of development and growth rate. Many other possible combinations of countries exist along with valid arguments for their use. Alternative poolings have not yet been completed, as each requires a bare amount of computer work. One or two different poolings for a few of the equations should be estimated to test the validity of the selected pooling. For each of the groups a subset of the estimated equation specifications are presented in Tables 3 through 7. All regressions were done using the ordinary least squares (OLS) program of TROLL. As opposed to a verbal description of the information contained in these tables, a general outline of the estimation work is presented. For each product type in each of the country groups the "preferred" specification is - 15 - NOTES TO TABLES 3A THROUGH 7 When a variable is indicated,.the coefficient is that of the log of that variable. The lagged dependent variable is the value of the left-hand side variable in the previous year. The T statistic for each coefficient appears in parentheses below the coefficient. 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Not a precise term, "preferred" indicates a combination of significance and correct sign in the elasticities and reasonable behavior in the lag structure. An attempt has been made to show the logical alternative(s) to the preferred specification. The most common reason for selecting an equation which excludes a variable which should in theory be included (such as price) is an incorrect sign for the coefficient of that variable (such as a positive elasticity for price). In the case of motor gasolines and diesel fuel where, strictly speaking, other fuels do not compete for the same uses, alternative specifications attempted include only the basic equations. That is, only the static and dynamic version where product price and income are used as explanatory variables. For the fuel oils the appropriate prices (retail or industrial) of alternative fuels were used; generally with poor result. Alternatively the respective constructed price of energy was used in the fuel oil equations for each group (regressions not shown for every case) also with mixed results. For other fuel oil, the major use of which is space heating, an average temperature variable was included. Good results were achieved using the temperature variable in equations for Europe and North America. Fuels used to generate electricity constitute a significant portion of the category "other petroleum products" (FOPET). Therefore the price of electricity was employed and expected to have a negative coefficient. A time variable was used in some specifications for aviation gasoline in an attempt to account for the replacement over time of internal conbustion engines by jet engines in most commercial aircraft. As would be expected, jet fuel has a high income elasticity in most cases; higher than would be expected to hold after the above mentioned replacement has been more or less completed. - 28 - The results in many cases indicate a negative income elasticity for kerosene. It is reasonable that kerosene is an inferior good, being replaced by more convenient heating and cooking fuels as incomes rise. LPG, only recently a significant consumption category, generally displays a very high positive income elasticity. elasticities to hold in the long run. One would not expect these high - 29 - REFERENCES 1. Pindyck, R. S., "International Comparisons of the Residential Demand for Energy", MIT Energy Laboratory Working Paper #MIT EL 77-027 WP, August 1977. 2. Pindyck, R. S., "Interfuel Substitution and the Industrial Demand for Energy: An International Comparison", MIT Energy Laboratory Working Paper #MIT EL 77-026 WP, August 1977. 3. 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