Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/59737 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 28.2012
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
In this paper the oil price-macroeconomy relationship is investigated from a global perspective, by means of a large scale macro-financial-econometric model. In addition to real activity, fiscal and monetary policy responses and labor and financial markets are considered as well. We find that oil market shocks would have contributed to slowing down economic growth since the first Persian Gulf War episode. Among oil market shocks, supply side disturbances were the largest contributor to macro-financial fluctuations, accounting for up to 12% of real activity variance. The latter shocks would have exercised recessionary effects during the first and second Persian Gulf War and 2008 oil price episodes; preferences, speculative and volatility shocks would have also contributed to exacerbate the recessionary episodes. As long as oil supply will keep expanding at a lower pace than required by demand conditions, a recessionary bias, determined by higher and more uncertain real oil prices, may then be expected to persist also in the near future.
Subjects: 
Oil Price
Oil Price-Macroeconomy Relationship
Macro-finance Interface
International Business Cycle
Factor Vector Autoregressive Models
JEL: 
C22
E32
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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