Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153446 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1012
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the empirical determinants of import demand in oil exporting countries. Using a new dataset including a large cross section of oil exporting countries, we show with a panel cointegration analysis that import demand in these countries depends positively on domestic demand and exports, the real exchange rate and the price of oil. Fiscal surpluses, on the other hand, tend to reduce the demand for imports. More specifically, our import elasticities estimated for oil exporting countries are not far from estimates found in the literature on industrial countries. In particular, we conclude that the import elasticity with respect to domestic activity is larger than one – a finding which is in contrast to standard theoretical predictions but in line with most empirical findings for other countries. These results are robust over a wide set of alternative specifications.
Subjects: 
Import Equation
oil exporting countries
Panel Cointegration
JEL: 
F14
F01
Q43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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