Oil prices and current account: A structural analysis for the Turkish economy
Although there has been an increasing number of studies about the effects of oil prices on the macroeconomic performances, the literature on the interaction between oil prices and current account is limited, especially for oil importing developing countries. This paper analyzes the impact of oil prices on the current account balances for the Turkish economy using a structural vector autoregression model. Our model allows us to identify the net effect of oil prices on current account balances after controlling for other factors such as output gap and exchange rate misalignment. The results show that the response of current account ratio to oil price shock increases gradually up to the first three months and then starts to decrease, which indicates a significant effect of oil price shocks in the short-run. Moreover, when the obtained structural shocks are employed in a simple regression analysis, the parameter regarding the oil price shocks is found to be negative and statistically significant. The final section discusses the policy implications of the results.
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2010
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Authors: | Özlale, Ümit ; Pekkurnaz, Didem |
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Energy Policy. - Elsevier, ISSN 0301-4215. - Vol. 38.2010, 8, p. 4489-4496
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Oil prices Current account balances Turkish economy |
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