The Differential Effects of Oil Demand and Supply Shocks on the Global Economy

By Paul Cashin, Kamiar Mohaddes, Mehdi Raissi, Maziar Raissi

October 23, 2012

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Paul Cashin, Kamiar Mohaddes, Mehdi Raissi, and Maziar Raissi. The Differential Effects of Oil Demand and Supply Shocks on the Global Economy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed December 26, 2024

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Summary

We employ a set of sign restrictions on the generalized impulse responses of a Global VAR model, estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2–2011Q2, to discriminate between supply-driven and demand-driven oil-price shocks and to study the time profile of their macroeconomic effects for different countries. The results indicate that the economic consequences of a supply-driven oil-price shock are very different from those of an oil-demand shock driven by global economic activity, and vary for oil-importing countries compared to energy exporters. While oil importers typically face a long-lived fall in economic activity in response to a supply-driven surge in oil prices, the impact is positive for energy-exporting countries that possess large proven oil/gas reserves. However, in response to an oil-demand disturbance, almost all countries in our sample experience long-run inflationary pressures and a short-run increase in real output.

Subject: Commodities, Econometric analysis, Foreign exchange, Oil, Oil prices, Oil production, Prices, Production, Real effective exchange rates, Vector autoregression

Keywords: Africa, Error correction term, Global, Global macroeconomic modeling, Global VAR (GVAR), Impulse responses, Interconnectedness, International business cycle, Middle East, North Africa, Oil, Oil exporter, Oil price, Oil prices, Oil production, Oil-demand and oil-supply shocks, Oil-price shock, Real effective exchange rates, Shock result, Vector autoregression, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

41
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Working Paper No. 2012/253
Stock No:

WPIEA2012253
ISBN:

9781475597158
ISSN:

1018-5941

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