The differential effects of oil demand and supply shocks on the global economy

Paul Cashin (), Kamiar Mohaddes, Maziar Raissi and Mehdi Raissi

Energy Economics, 2014, vol. 44, issue C, 113-134

Abstract: We employ a set of sign restrictions on the impulse responses of a Global VAR model, estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2–2011Q2, as well as bounds on impact price elasticities of oil supply and oil demand to discriminate between supply-driven and demand-driven oil-price shocks, and to study the time profile of their macroeconomic effects across a wide range of countries and real/financial variables. We show that the above identification scheme can greatly benefit from the cross-sectional dimension of the GVAR—by providing a large number of additional cross-country sign restrictions and hence reducing the set of admissible models. The results indicate that the economic consequences of a supply-driven oil-price shock are very different from those of an oil-demand shock driven by global economic activity, and vary for oil-importing countries compared to energy exporters. While oil importers typically face a long-lived fall in economic activity in response to a supply-driven surge in oil prices, the impact is positive for energy-exporting countries that possess large proven oil/gas reserves. However, in response to an oil-demand disturbance, almost all countries in our sample experience long-run inflationary pressures, an increase in real output, a rise in interest rates, and a fall in equity prices.

Keywords: Global VAR (GVAR); Interconnectedness; Global macroeconomic modeling; Sign restrictions; Impulse responses; International business cycle; Oil-demand and oil-supply shocks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E17 F44 F47 Q41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Working Paper: The Differential Effects of Oil Demand and Supply Shocks on the Global Economy (2013)
Working Paper: The Differential Effects of Oil Demand and Supply Shocks on the Global Economy (2012)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.03.014

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