Investigating the U.S. oil-macroeconomy nexus using rolling impulse responses

Arbeitspapier

This paper is concerned with the apparent change in the U.S. oil price-macroeconomy relationship. It is investigated to what extent this change can be accounted for by the large oil price surges witnessed in the 1970s. The innovative approach of rolling impulse responses is applied and both the aggregate and the industry-level is considered. It is found that the first oil crisis has an persistent” effect in the sense that this incident still dominates long-run results and superimposes both subsample and industry-specifics. The results, furthermore, suggest that the Great Moderation can essentially be explained by the non-occurrence of large oil shocks after the mid 1980s and that oil is less important for the economy than many researchers still believe.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2702

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models ; Computational Techniques; Simulation Modeling ; Business Fluctuations; Cycles
• Subject: oil price ; vector autoregressions ; rolling impulse responses ; Great Moderation ; Mineralölpreisschock ; Makroökonomischer Einfluss ; Erdölpreis ; Konjunktur ; Konjunkturpolitik ; USA

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Gronwald, Marc
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/30502
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