This article studies the impact of oil shocks on the macroeconomy in two ways insofar unexploited in the literature. The analysis is conducted at the global level, and it explicitly accounts for the potentially changing nature of oil shocks. Constructing an original world gdp series and grouping...

We study inflation targeting?s impact in Sweden over time and whether its adoption has constituted a regime switch using a msvar technique. We assess, based on two different specifications, the two main features generally attributed to it: the preference for inflation in the monetary reaction...