Oil supply news in a VAR: Information from financial markets

Alessio Anzuini, Patrizio Pagano () and Massimiliano Pisani

No 632, Temi di discussione (Economic working papers) from Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area

Abstract: This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects on the U.S. economy of news about oil supply by estimating a VAR. Information contained in daily quotations of oil futures contracts is exploited to estimate the dynamic path of oil prices following a shock. Hence, differently from the VAR literature on oil shocks we do not need to rely on recursive identification. Impulse response functions suggest that oil supply disruptions have stagflationary effects on the U.S. economy. Historical decomposition shows that oil shocks contributed significantly to the US recessions of the last thirty years, but not all exogenous increases in oil prices induced a recession. Finally, the contribution of oil shocks to inflation fluctuations seems to have declined over time.

Keywords: vector autoregression; oil shock; futures; news (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C2 E3 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-06
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