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Macroeconomic and Financial Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Evidence for the Euro Area

The paper investigates the macroeconomic and financial effects of oil prices shocks in the euro area since its creation in 1999, with a special focus on the recent slump. The analysis is carried out episode by episode, within a time-varying parameter framework, consistent with the view that "not all the oil price shocks are alike", yet without imposing any a priori identification assumption. We find evidence of recessionary effects triggered not only by oil price hikes, but also by oil price slumps in some cases, likewise for the most recent episode, which is also rising deflation risk and financial distress. In addition through uncertainty effects, the current slump might then be depressing aggregate demand by increasing the real interest rate, as ECB monetary policy is already conducted at the zero lower bound. The increase in real money balances following the slump points to the accommodation of the shock by the ECB, concurrent with the implementation of the Quantitative Easing policy (Q.E.). Yet, in so far as Q.E failed to generate inflationary expectations within the current and expected environment of soft oil prices, the case for a more expansionary use of fiscal policy than in the past would become compelling, in order to counteract the deflationary and recessionary threats to the euro area.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Nota di Lavoro ; No. 23.2016

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
Thema
Oil Price Shocks
Oil Price-macroeconomy Relationship
Risk Factors
Semiparametric Dynamic Conditional Correlation Model
Time-varying Parameter Models

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Morana, Claudio
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)
(wo)
Milano
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Morana, Claudio
  • Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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