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Oil Supply News in a VAR: Information from Financial MarketsPatrizio PaganoBank of Italy Alessio AnzuiniBank of Italy Massimiliano PisaniBank of Italy June 2007 Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 632 Abstract: This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects on the U.S. economy of news about oil supply by estimating a VAR. Information contained in daily quotations of oil futures contracts is exploited to estimate the dynamic path of oil prices following a shock. Hence, differently from the VAR literature on oil shocks we do not need to rely on recursive identification. Impulse response functions suggest that oil supply disruptions have stagflationary effects on the U.S. economy. Historical decomposition shows that oil shocks contributed significantly to the US recessions of the last thirty years, but not all exogenous increases in oil prices induced a recession. Finally, the contribution of oil shocks to inflation fluctuations seems to have declined over time.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 36 Keywords: vector autoregression, oil shock, futures, news JEL Classification: C2, E3, O41 working papers seriesDate posted: August 7, 2007Suggested Citation |
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