The Impacts of Oil Price Fluctuations on Competitiveness and Macroeconomic Activity
The Impacts of Oil Price Fluctuations on Competitiveness and Macroeconomic Activity

Author: Mukhriz Izraf Azman Aziz

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Published: 2010

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This thesis focuses on the relationships between oil prices fluctuations and trade-related variables. There are 6 chapters. The introductory chapter sets the scene while chapter 2 discusses the theory for economics of non-renewable resources. This is followed by three substantive chapters which focus on three different aspects of the thesis: the oil price-RCA relationship, the oil price-exchange rate relationship and the oil price-output growth relationship. Chapter 6 concludes the thesis. Chapter 3 quantifies the effects of oil price fluctuations on revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for 36 manufacturing commodities of 167 countries from 1990 to 2005. Using Zellner's (1962) seemingly unrelated regression (SURE) model, the chapter finds that oil price fluctuations negatively affect middle-income economies and net oil-exporting countries' RCA more than high-income economies and net oil-importing countries. Chapter 4 explores the long run effects of real oil price and real interest rate differential on real exchange rate for a monthly panel of 8 countries from 1980 to 2008. Using the mean group estimator, the chapter finds no statistically significant relationship between real oil price and real exchange rate for oil-importing and oil- exporting countries. However, when using the pooled mean group estimator, the chapter finds a positive and statistically significant impact of real oil price on real exchange rate for five net oil importing countries, implying that increase in oil price leads to real exchange rate depreciation . . Chapter 5 investigates the asymmetric effects of oil pnce shocks on real economic activities in Malaysia from 1991 to 2007. Using an unrestricted Vector Auto Regressive (V AR) method, mixed results are obtained. Evidence of a symmetric relationship between oil prices and economic activities is obtained from the impulse response function (IRFs). However, the variance decomposition analyses VAR suggest that oil prices have different impacts on economic activities when they increase than when they fall.

International Dimensions of Monetary Policy
International Dimensions of Monetary Policy

Author: Jordi Galí

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-03-15

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 0226278875

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United States monetary policy has traditionally been modeled under the assumption that the domestic economy is immune to international factors and exogenous shocks. Such an assumption is increasingly unrealistic in the age of integrated capital markets, tightened links between national economies, and reduced trading costs. International Dimensions of Monetary Policy brings together fresh research to address the repercussions of the continuing evolution toward globalization for the conduct of monetary policy. In this comprehensive book, the authors examine the real and potential effects of increased openness and exposure to international economic dynamics from a variety of perspectives. Their findings reveal that central banks continue to influence decisively domestic economic outcomes—even inflation—suggesting that international factors may have a limited role in national performance. International Dimensions of Monetary Policy will lead the way in analyzing monetary policy measures in complex economies.

Oil Prices and the Global Economy
Oil Prices and the Global Economy

Author: Mr.Rabah Arezki

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2017-01-27

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1475572360

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This paper presents a simple macroeconomic model of the oil market. The model incorporates features of oil supply such as depletion, endogenous oil exploration and extraction, as well as features of oil demand such as the secular increase in demand from emerging-market economies, usage efficiency, and endogenous demand responses. The model provides, inter alia, a useful analytical framework to explore the effects of: a change in world GDP growth; a change in the efficiency of oil usage; and a change in the supply of oil. Notwithstanding that shale oil production today is more responsive to prices than conventional oil, our analysis suggests that an era of prolonged low oil prices is likely to be followed by a period where oil prices overshoot their long-term upward trend.

On the Sources and Consequences of Oil Price Shocks
On the Sources and Consequences of Oil Price Shocks

Author: Deren Unalmis

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 1475598432

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Building on recent work on the role of speculation and inventories in oil markets, we embed a competitive oil storage model within a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. This enables us to formally analyze the impact of a (speculative) storage demand shock and to assess how the effects of various demand and supply shocks change in the presence of oil storage facility. We find that business-cycle driven oil demand shocks are the most important drivers of U.S. oil price fluctuations during 1982-2007. Disregarding the storage facility in the model causes a considerable upward bias in the estimated role of oil supply shocks in driving oil price fluctuations. Our results also confirm that a change in the composition of shocks helps explain the resilience of the macroeconomic environment to the oil price surge after 2003. Finally, speculative storage is shown to have a mitigating or amplifying role depending on the nature of the shock.

Crude Oil Price Fluctuations
Crude Oil Price Fluctuations

Author: Daisy Michel Edde

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Published: 2010

Total Pages: 202

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Since the 1970s, the world has experienced several oil price changes with cruel impact on global macroeconomic factors. The first oil price shocks in 1973 provoked the attention of many and the ambiguous relation between oil prices and economic activity encouraged several people to study its trends, causes and short term and long term consequences. Are oil prices linked to the law of the market, to political events, to speculation or future expectations? --Everybody reached the conclusion that oil price fluctuations stimulated inflation and generated recessions but each one got it differently. --In this thesis, we will test the relationship between crude oil price fluctuations and several macroeconomic factors from 1970 to 2009. In addition, an estimation of the impact of oil price shocks on the world economy is done. Chapter 1 is a general introduction about the energy industry particularly oil, and a brief description about the different chapters. Chapter 2 described the major events that happened from the 1970s until 2010 and that affected oil prices hence the macroeconomic performance i.e. Yom Kippur war, Iranian Revolution, Gulf war, Asian Financial Crisis, the sequence of Hurricanes, 2008 Great Recession. Chapter 3 is a discussion of previous studies related to this subject. It helps us identify better the nature of the relation between oil and macroeconomic factors from different point of views. In chapter 4, through the Granger causality test applied on 15 countries, we will analyze how crude oil price fluctuations affect them individually then to analyze the effect of oil price shocks on the global economy, an estimation of these shocks on the world economy is done. It focuses on two oil shocks: The Oil price shocks of 1973 and1985.

The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation
The Distributional Implications of the Impact of Fuel Price Increases on Inflation

Author: Mr. Kangni R Kpodar

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-11-12

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1616356154

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This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to construct a CPI index for the poorest and richest income quintiles with the view to assess the distributional impact of the pass-through. To undertake this analysis, the paper provides an update to the Global Monthly Retail Fuel Price Database, expanding the product coverage to premium and regular fuels, the time dimension to December 2020, and the sample to 190 countries. Three key findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad-based in developing economies than in advanced economies. Second, we show that past studies using crude oil prices instead of retail fuel prices to estimate the pass-through to inflation significantly underestimate it. Third, while the purchasing power of all households declines as fuel prices increase, the distributional impact is progressive. But the progressivity phases out within 6 months after the shock in advanced economies, whereas it persists beyond a year in developing countries.

Imperfect Competition and the Effects of Energy Price Increases on Economic Activity
Imperfect Competition and the Effects of Energy Price Increases on Economic Activity

Author: Julio Rotemberg

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Published: 1996

Total Pages: 60

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We show that modifying the standard neoclassical growth model by assuming that competition is imperfect makes it easier to explain the size of the declines in output and real wages that follow increases in the price of oil. Plausibly parameterized models of this type are able to mimic the response of output and real wages in the United States. The responses are particularly consistent with a model of implicit collusion where markups depend positively on the ratio of the expected present value of future profits to the current level of output.

Macroeconomic Implications of Oil Price Fluctuations
Macroeconomic Implications of Oil Price Fluctuations

Author: Federic Holm-Hadulla

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Published: 2018

Total Pages: 45

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We investigate whether the response of the macro-economy to oil price shocks undergoes episodic changes. Employing a regime-switching vector autoregressive model we identify two regimes that are characterized by qualitatively different patterns in economic activity and inflation following oil price shocks in the euro area. In the normal regime, oil price shocks trigger only limited and short-lived adjustments in these variables. In the adverse regime, by contrast, oil price shocks are followed by sizeable and sustained macroeconomic fluctuations, with inflation and economic activity moving in the same direction as the oil price. The responses of inflation expectations and wage growth point to second-round effects as a potential driver of the dynamics characterising the adverse regime. The systematic response of monetary policy works against such second-round effects in the adverse regime but is insufficient to fully offset them. The model also delivers (conditional) probabilities for being (staying) in either regime, which may help interpret oil price fluctuations - and inform deliberations on the adequate policy response - in real-time.