We present a weekly structural Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model of the US crude oil market. Exploiting weekly data we can explain short-run crude oil price dynamics, including those related with the COVID-19 pandemic and with the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The model is set identified with...

The impulse-response-function-based Wald test has been gaining wide popularity among researchers seeking to formally test for (a)symmetries in dynamic responses of various macroeconomic aggregates to oil price shocks. However, because the IRF-based Wald test is conditional on the magnitude of an...

The recent plunge in oil prices has brought into question the generally accepted view that lower oil prices are good for the US and the global economy. In this paper, using a quarterly multi-country econometric model, we first show that a fall in oil prices tends relatively quickly to lower...

This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of falling oil prices due to the oil revolution in the United States, using a Global VAR model estimated for 38 countries/regions over the period 1979Q2 to 2011Q2. Set-identification of the U.S. oil supply shock is achieved through...

This paper investigates the global macroeconomic consequences of country-specific oilsupply shocks. Our contribution is both theoretical and empirical. On the theoretical side, we develop a model for the global oil market and integrate this within a compact quarterly model of the global economy...

The recent plunge in oil prices has brought into question the generally accepted view that lower oil prices are good for the United States and the global economy. In this paper, using a quarterly multi-country econometric model, we first show that a fall in oil prices tends relatively quickly to...

Understanding the empirical linkage between oil prices and inflation is imperative as all monetary authorities attempt to keep inflation under check. This paper examines the time-varying correlations between crude oil prices and two major macroeconomic variables, inflation and interest rates in...

This paper investigates the dynamic responses of employment flows to oil price shocks for the U.S. Manufacturing sector in the post-1973 period. Using the latest available data and state-of-the-art econometric methods of estimation and inference, I formally test for asymmetries in responses of...

We investigate the joint dynamics of oil prices, financial liquidity and geopolitical risk, within a multi-country global vector-autoregressive (GVAR) model. We find that low oil prices are expected to trigger higher levels of geopolitical risk, and that decelerating financial liquidity serves...