Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246108 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 5/2020
Publisher: 
Norges Bank, Oslo
Abstract: 
Do inflation expectations and the associated pass-through of oil price shocks depend on demand and supply conditions underlying the global market for crude oil? We answer this question with a novel structural vector autoregressive model of the global oil market that jointly identifies transmissions of oil demand and supply shocks through the real price of oil to both expected and realized inflation. Our main insight is that US households form their expectations of inflation differently when faced with long sustained increases in the price of oil, such as the early millennium oil price surge of 2003 to 2008, as compared to short and sharp price fluctuations that characterized much of the twentieth century. We also find that oil demand and supply shocks can explain a large proportion of expected and realized inflation dynamics during multiple periods of economic significance, and resolve disagreements around the role of oil prices in explaining the missing deflation puzzle of the Great Recession.
Subjects: 
Inflation expectations
inflation pass-through
oil prices
JEL: 
E31
D84
Q41
Q43
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-82-8379-153-2
Creative Commons License: 
cc-by-nc-nd Logo
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Appears in Collections:

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.