Oil price shocks and agricultural commodity prices

Yudong Wang, Chongfeng Wu and Li Yang ()

Energy Economics, 2014, vol. 44, issue C, 22-35

Abstract: While the impacts of oil price changes on agricultural commodity markets are of great interest to economists, previous studies do not differentiate oil-specific shocks from aggregate demand shocks. In this paper, we address this issue using a structural VAR analysis. Our findings indicate that the responses of agricultural commodity prices to oil price changes depend greatly on whether they are caused oil supply shocks, aggregate demand shocks or other oil-specific shocks mainly driven by precautionary demand. Oil shocks can explain a minor friction of agricultural commodity price variations before the food crisis in 2006–2008, whereas in post-crisis period their explanatory abilities become much higher. After crisis, the contributions of oil-specific factors to variations in agricultural commodity prices are greater than those of aggregate demand shocks. The results from an alternative SVAR confirm the robustness of our main findings.

Keywords: Oil price; Oil supply shock; Aggregate demand shock; Agricultural commodity; Structural VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 O13 Q11 Q13 Q42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.03.016

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