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allowed it to become a major exporter of gasoline and diesel fuel. Since mid-2014 the global real price of crude oil has … gasoline in global markets and in the United States? Third, what determines the investment response of the oil sector to oil …
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SPR, as recently proposed by the White House, lower the global price of oil (and hence the U.S. price of motor gasoline …
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hence in the U.S. price of gasoline after June 2014. Our analysis suggests that this decline produced a cumulative stimulus … reallocating labor across sectors or for increased uncertainty about the price of gasoline in explaining the sluggish response of U …
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The conventional wisdom that inflation expectations respond to the level of the price of oil (or the price of gasoline … support for the conventional wisdom. Using a new structural vector regression model, however, we demonstrate that gasoline … explained by a large increase in gasoline prices. However, on average, gasoline price shocks account for only 39% of the …
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The transmission of oil price shocks has been a question of central interest in macroeconomics since the 1970s. There has been renewed interest in this question after the large and persistent fall in the real price of oil in 2014-16. In the context of this debate, Ramey (2017) makes the striking...
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We propose a new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand that exploits systematic differences … across U.S. states in the pass-through of oil price shocks to retail gasoline prices. We show that these differences are … primarily driven by the cost of producing and distributing gasoline, which varies with states' access to oil and gasoline …
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It has been forty years since the oil crisis of 1973/74. This crisis has been one of the defining economic events of the 1970s and has shaped how many economists think about oil price shocks. In recent years, a large literature on the economic determinants of oil price fluctuations has emerged....
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We study the interactions between fuel efficiency improvements in the transport sector and the oil market, where the efficiency improvements are policy-induced in certain regions of the world. We are especially interested in feedback mechanisms of fuel efficiency such as the rebound effect,...
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Development projects in the oil industry often have cost overruns. Through analysis of data from Norwegian development projects in the petroleum industry, this paper investigates the common effect of business cycle developments on cost overruns. Lack of capacity and expertise in a tight supplier...
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Baumeister and Hamilton (2019a) assert that every critique of their work on oil markets by Kilian and Zhou (2019a) is without merit. In addition, they make the case that key aspects of the economic and econometric analysis in the widely used oil market model of Kilian and Murphy (2014) and its...
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