Macroeconomic and financial effects of oil price shocks: Evidence for the euro area

Claudio Morana

Economic Modelling, 2017, vol. 64, issue C, 82-96

Abstract: The paper investigates the macroeconomic and financial effects of oil price shocks for the euro area, with a special focus on post-2009 oil price dynamics and the recent slump. The analysis is carried out episode by episode, by means of a large-scale time-varying parameter model. We find that recessionary effects are triggered by oil price hikes and, in some cases, also by oil price slumps. In this respect, the post-2009 run-up likely contributed to sluggish growth, while uncertainty and real interest rate effects are the potential channels through which the 2014 slump has depressed aggregate demand and worsened financial conditions. Also in light of the zero interest rate policy carried out by the ECB, in so far as the Quantitative Easing policy failed to generate inflationary expectations, a more expansionary fiscal policy might be required to counteract the deflationary and recessionary threat within the expected environment of soft oil prices.

Keywords: Oil price shocks; Oil price-macroeconomy relationship; Risk factors; Semiparametric dynamic conditional correlation model; Time-varying parameter models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 E30 E50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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Working Paper: Macroeconomic and Financial Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Evidence for the Euro Area (2016)
Working Paper: Macroeconomic and Financial Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Evidence for the Euro Area (2016)
Working Paper: Macroeconomic and Financial Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Evidence for the Euro Area (2016)
Working Paper: Macroeconomic and Financial Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Evidence for the Euro Area (2016)
Working Paper: Macroeconomic and Financial Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Evidence for the Euro Area (2016)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2017.03.016

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