Reviewing the Oil Price - GDP Growth Relationship: A Replication Study

28 Pages Posted: 11 Aug 2019 Last revised: 23 Apr 2020

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Lanouar Charfeddine

Qatar University - College of Business and Economics

Tony Klein

Chemnitz University of Technology (CUT) - Department of Economics

Thomas Walther

Utrecht University - School of Economics; Dresden University of Technology - Faculty of Economics and Business Management

Date Written: April 22, 2020

Abstract

This paper presents a thorough replication of Hamilton (2003) which in turn replicates and extends the findings of four seminal papers regarding the oil price-GDP growth relationship. Firstly, we replicate the empirical results obtained with the oil price measures of Hamilton (1983), Mork (1989), Lee (1995), Hamilton (1996), and Hamilton 2003) by using an identical data set of real and nominal oil prices. Secondly, we extend the data sets to 2019Q4 and apply the same methodology. We find that for more recent data the explanatory power of the proposed oil price measures on GDP growth rates is still present, albeit on a slightly weaker magnitude. Extending the ARX(4), we only find little evidence that oil price decreases impact GDP growth rates on the full data set. Parameter stability tests suggest that the impact of oil price decreases might be limited to certain periods.

Keywords: Oil prices, GDP growth, Asymmetry, Nonlinearity

JEL Classification: C24, E32, F43, Q43

Suggested Citation

Charfeddine, Lanouar and Klein, Tony and Walther, Thomas, Reviewing the Oil Price - GDP Growth Relationship: A Replication Study (April 22, 2020). QMS Research Paper 2019/09, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3432407 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3432407

Lanouar Charfeddine

Qatar University - College of Business and Economics ( email )

2713 Doha
Qatar

Tony Klein (Contact Author)

Chemnitz University of Technology (CUT) - Department of Economics ( email )

Chemnitz
Germany

Thomas Walther

Utrecht University - School of Economics ( email )

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Utrecht, +31 30 253 7373 3584 EC
Netherlands

HOME PAGE: http://www.thomas-walther.info

Dresden University of Technology - Faculty of Economics and Business Management ( email )

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Dresden, D-01062
Germany

HOME PAGE: http://www.tu-dresden.de/wiwi/finance

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