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We study the impact of fluctuations in global oil prices on domestic inflation using an unbalanced panel of 72 advanced … and developing economies over the period from 1970 to 2015. We find that a 10 percent increase in global oil inflation … increases, on average, domestic inflation by about 0.4 percentage point on impact, with the effect vanishing after two years and …
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The effect that the recent decline in the price of oil has had on growth is far from clear, with many observers at odds … this puzzle by providing a systematic analysis of the effect of oil price shocks on growth for 72 countries comprising 92 ….8% of world GDP. We find that, on net, shocks driving the oil price in 2015 shaved off 0.2 percentage points of growth for …
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We study the effects of oil-price shocks on the U.S. economy combining narrative and quantitative approaches. After … examining daily oil-related events since 1984, we classify them into various event types. We then develop measures of exogenous … shocks that avoid endogeneity and predictability concerns. Estimation results indicate that oil-price shocks have had …
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and negative commodity terms-of-trade shocks. Using a sample of 27 oil-exporting countries and a panel VAR method, the … debt and low levels of international reserves–which also serve to amplify the volatility of the response; 3) the output …
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This paper investigates the causal relationship between financial development and economic growth in Libya during the period 1970–2010. The empirical results vary with estimation methodology and model specification, but indicate the lack of long-run relationship between financial...
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that remove rigidities, output would fall. We also find that lower oil prices need not be bad news given more oil …-intensive production structures. However, lower oil prices have hurt these oil producers as their public finances depend heavily on oil … could support these economies to achieve better outcomes when oil prices fall, including via diversifying exports …
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This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing countries over the period 2000-2014. Using a fixed-effect estimator and the local projection approach, we find that an increase in domestic gasoline or diesel price adversely affects...
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supply chain disruptions for inflation and monetary policy in sub-Saharan Africa. Increases in supply chain pressures have … had a sizeable impact on headline, food, and tradable inflation for a panel of 29 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 … to 2022. Our findings suggest that central banks can stabilize inflation and output more efficiently by monitoring global …
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CPI weights to account for the changes in spending patterns increases the estimate of inflation over the early months of … the underestimation of inflation. Updated CPI weights should be developed as soon as is feasible, but flux in spending …
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This paper examines the long-run relationship between consumer price index industrial workers (CPI-IW) inflation and …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically …-significant inflation-growth threshold effects in the case of states with persistently-elevated inflation rates of above 5.5percent. This …
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