Modeling the Response of Gasoline-Crude Oil Price Crack Spread Macroeconomic Shocks

Bradley Ewing and Mark A. Thompson ()
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Mark A. Thompson: Augusta University

Atlantic Economic Journal, 2018, vol. 46, issue 2, No 6, 203-213

Abstract: Abstract To date, considerable attention has been given to evaluating movements in crude oil and gasoline prices and in determining the significance of fundamental state variables that may influence these prices. This paper differs from the existing literature by identifying the response of the single-product gasoline-crude oil crack spread to unexpected changes in real output growth, inflation, the corporate default risk premium, and the stance of monetary policy utilizing the econometric techniques of vector autoregression and generalized impulse response analysis. The generalized impulse response method does not impose a priori restrictions as to the relative importance each of the state variables may play in the process of transmitting unexpected information from the macroeconomic variables to the crack spread. The results show the extent and the magnitude of the relationship between the crack spread being investigated and macroeconomic factors.

Keywords: Crack spread; Crude oil price; Gasoline price; Vector autoregression; Impulse response; Macroeconomic factors; C32; Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11293-018-9582-x

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