Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145394 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 546
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of crude oil price movements on two macro variables, the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate and the consumer price index (CPI) inflation rate, in three countries, the People's Republic of China (an emerging economy), Japan, and the United States (developed economies), in a model incorporating monetary variables (money supply and exchange rate). The main objective of this research is to investigate whether these economies are still reactive to oil price movements and compare their reactions. Monetary variables are included in this survey because our earlier research showed that they have a significant role in oil price determination. To assess the relationship between crude oil prices and macro variables we adopt an N-variable structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model. The results suggest that the impact of oil price fluctuations on developed oil importers' GDP growth is much milder than on the GDP growth of an emerging economy. On the other hand, however, the impact of oil price fluctuations on the People's Republic of China's inflation rate was found to be milder than in the two developed countries that were examined.
Subjects: 
Oil
GDP growth rate
CPI inflation
developed economies
emerging economies
JEL: 
Q43
E31
O57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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