Macroeconomic Response to Oil and Food Price Shocks: A Structural VAR Approach to the Indian Economy

Javed Ahmad Bhat, Aadil Ahmad Ganaie and Naresh Kumar Sharma

International Economic Journal, 2018, vol. 32, issue 1, 66-90

Abstract: The study analyzed the dynamic impact of oil and food price shocks on the macroeconomy of India, using the monthly time series data from April 1994 to May 2016 in a structural vector autoregression (SVAR) framework. Being a net food exporter and net oil importer, the economy is found to face deleterious impacts of global oil and food price shocks on its macroeconomic performance. Output responds negatively to oil and food price hikes along with their volatility and positively to the fall in these prices. Inflation responds positively to all the three transformations of shocks with no signs of coming down, highlighting the price downward inflexibility in India. The study could not establish any evidence of negative demand shocks in face of oil and food price volatility. Central bank responds with a contractionary policy stance to negate the influences of external shocks. Forecast error variance decomposition points out the dominance of external shocks in influencing the domestic variables after their own shocks. Finally, the inflation downward rigidity is observed even in the long run.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/10168737.2018.1446038

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