Assessing dynamics of crude oil import demand in Korea

Hyun Kim () and Jungho Baek

Economic Modelling, 2013, vol. 35, issue C, 260-263

Abstract: Although Korea was the world's seventh largest oil consumer and fourth largest oil importer, relatively little attention has been paid to empirical analyses of the Korean crude oil market. In this paper, we have attempted to expand the scope of previous literature by examining Korea's import demand for crude oil in a dynamic framework of cointegration. The empirical focus is on assessing the short- and long-run relationships among volume of crude oil import, economic growth and price of imported crude oil in Korea. For this purpose, an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach is applied to quarterly data for 1986–2010. Results show that income level is a more powerful determinant of the long-run behavior of Korea's crude oil imports than crude oil price. In the short-run, on the other hand, oil price is found to play a more important role in determining crude oil imports than income level.

Keywords: ARDL; Crude oil import; Korea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2013.07.010

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