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On the Sources and Consequences of Oil Price Shocks: The Role of Storage

Deren Ünalmış, Ibrahim Unalmis and Filiz Unsal

Working Papers from Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Abstract: Building on recent work on the role of speculation and inventories in oil markets, we embed a competitive oil storage model within a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. This enables us to formally analyze the impact of a (speculative) storage demand shock and to assess how the effects of various demand and supply shocks change in the presence of oil storage facility. We ?nd that business-cycle driven oil demand shocks are the most important drivers of U.S. oil price ?uctuations during 1982-2007. Disregarding the storage facility in the model causes a considerable upward bias in the estimated role of oil supply shocks in driving oil price ?uctuations. Our results also confirm that a change in the composition of shocks helps explain the resilience of the macroeconomic environment to the oil price surge after 2003. Finally, speculative storage is shown to have a mitigating or amplifying role depending on the nature of the shock.

Keywords: oil storage; oil price fluctuations; oil demand and oil supply shocks; speculative oil demand; sticky-price DSGE models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C68 E12 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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