Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment

49 Pages Posted: 13 Feb 2008 Last revised: 9 Sep 2022

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Selim Ali Elekdag

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Policy Development and Review Department

Rene Lalonde

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department

Douglas Laxton

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department

Dirk Muir

Bank of Canada

Paolo A. Pesenti

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: February 2008

Abstract

We develop a five-region version (Canada, a group of oil exporting countries, the United States, emerging Asia and Japan plus the euro area) of the Global Economy Model (GEM) encompassing production and trade of crude oil, and use it to study the international transmission mechanism of shocks that drive oil prices. In the presence of real adjustment costs that reduce the short- and medium-term responses of oil supply and demand, our simulations can account for large endogenous variations of oil prices with large effects on the terms of trade of oil-exporting versus oil-importing countries (in particular, emerging Asia), and result in significant wealth transfers between regions. This is especially true when we consider a sustained increase in productivity growth or a shift in production technology towards more capital- (and hence oil-) intensive goods in regions such as emerging Asia. In addition, we study the implications of higher taxes on gasoline that are used to reduce taxes on labor income, showing that such a policy could increase world productive capacity while being consistent with a reduction in oil consumption.

Suggested Citation

Elekdag, Selim Ali and Lalonde, René and Laxton, Douglas and Muir, Dirk and Pesenti, Paolo A., Oil Price Movements and the Global Economy: A Model-Based Assessment (February 2008). NBER Working Paper No. w13792, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1092820

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