Search Results - subject:"oil prices"

Oil and product price dynamics in international petroleum markets

Lanza, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo; Giovannini, Massimo - 2003

specification to predict crude oil prices over the horizon January 2002-June 2002.The main findings of the paper can be summarized …

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Forecasting Accuracy of Crude Oil Futures Prices

Kumar, Manmohan S. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1991

This paper undertakes an investigation into the efficiency of the crude oil futures market and the forecasting accuracy of futures prices. Efficiency of the market is analysed in terms of the expected excess returns to speculation in the futures market. Accuracy of futures prices is compared...

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Vietnam; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2002

financial crisis in 1997, and, toward the end, high world oil prices, which have led to both temporary and permanent changes in …

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Poverty and Social Impact Analysis in PRGF-Supported Programs

Inchauste, Gabriela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper aims to inform on the status of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) in IMF-supported programs, detailing the results presented in the recent review of PRGF-supported programs. The review showed that more needs to be done, both in undertaking PSIA when necessary, and in reporting...

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The Dominican Republic; Stabilization, Structural Reform, and Economic Growth

Cardoso, Jaime; Young, Philip M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

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Mali; Selected Issues and Statistical Annex

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2002

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Annex for Mali examines recent economic developments in Mali. The paper highlights that since the early 1990s, Mali has made appreciable progress in reducing macroeconomic imbalances and liberalizing the economy. This has been made possible by...

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Commodity Currencies and Empirical Exchange Rate Puzzles

Rogoff, Kenneth; Chen, Yu-chin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper re-examines empirical exchange rate puzzles by focusing on three OECD economies (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) where primary commodities constitute a significant share of their exports. For Australia and New Zealand especially, we find that the U.S. dollar price of their...

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Stock market contagion in the early stages of the global financial crisis: the experience of the GCC countries

Moosa, Imad - 2010

rather limited evidence for the effect of U.S. stock prices on GCC stock prices and a much more important role for oil prices …

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The role of model uncertainty and learning in the U.S. postwar policy response to oil prices

Rondina, Francesca - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

the channels of transmission of oil prices into the economy. More specifically, I examine the robust response to the real … underlying models dominates the optimal interest rate response to oil prices. This result persists even when alternative …

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Policy Evaluation and Uncertainty About the Effects of Oil Prices on Economic Activity

Rondina, Francesca - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010

oil prices on economic performance. I consider models of the economy inspired by Solow (1980), Blanchard and Gali (2007 …), Kim and Loungani (1992) and Hamilton (1983, 2005), which incorporate dierent assumptions on the channels through which oil … prices have an impact on economic activity. I first study the characteristics of the model space and I analyze the likelihood …

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