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the 1973 oil shock, and the lessons learned from subsequent experience, both in terms of the issues which were thought to …
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analysis shows that the presence and location of oil are significant and quantitatively important predictors of inter …
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Oil exporters typically do not consider below-ground assets when allocating their sovereign wealth fund portfolios, and … ignore above-ground assets when extracting oil. We present a unified framework for considering both. Subsoil oil should alter … any unhedged volatility must be managed by precautionary savings. If oil prices are pro-cyclical, oil should be extracted …
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becoming terrorists when representing regions rich in oil. Groups that participate in exerting power over their region are less …
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We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find … muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while … onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP composition. However, oil abundance causes municipal revenues and reported …
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responses to the inflation triggered by oil price shocks are an important source of aggregate fluctuations in the U.S. economy …. We show that there is no evidence of systematic monetary policy responses to oil price shocks after 1987 and that this … VAR models, the Federal Reserve was not responding to the inflation triggered by oil price shocks, as commonly presumed …
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Do exchange rates react to exogenous capital movements? We explore this issue based on the redefinition of the MSCI international equity indices announced on 10 December 2000 and implemented in two steps on 30 November 2001 and 31 May 2002. The index changes implied major changes in the...
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There is a substantial theoretical literature on the potential effects of loyalty contracts, but a relative paucity of empirical work. This Paper employs the event study methodology to examine the effect of exclusionary contracts on firm performance in the ocean shipping industry. Shipping...
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We explore how fiscal consolidations affect private sector confidence, a possible channel for the fiscal transmission that has received particular attention recently as a result of governments embarking on austerity trajectories in the aftermath of the crisis. Panel regressions based on the...
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We analyze the reactions of stock returns and CDS spreads of banks from Europe and the United States to four major regulatory reforms in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, employing an event study analysis. In contrast to the public perception that nothing has happened, we find that financial...
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