Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 530
Cover Image
Sources of Volatility During Four Oil Price Crashes
Baffes, John - 2017
Previous sharp oil price declines have been accompanied by elevated ex post volatility. In contrast, volatility was much less elevated during the oil price crash in 2014/15. This paper provides evidence that oil prices declined in a relatively measured manner during 2014/15, with dispersion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970942
Cover Image
Oil Price Volatility, Economic Growth and the Hedging Role of Renewable Energy
Rentschler, Jun E. - 2017
This paper investigates the adverse effects of oil price volatility on economic activity and the extent to which countries can hedge against such effects by using renewable energy. By considering the Realized Volatility of oil prices, rather than following the standard approach of considering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973994
Cover Image
How Much Does an Increase in Oil Prices Affect the Global Economy? Some Insights from a General Equilibrium Analysis
Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017
A global computable general equilibrium model is used to analyze the economic impacts of rising oil prices with endogenously determined availability of biofuels to mitigate those impacts. The negative effects on the global economy are comparable to those found in other studies, but the impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974209
Cover Image
Oil Price Risks and Pump Price Adjustments
Kojima, Masami - 2017
Between 1999 and 2008, world oil prices more than quadrupled in real terms. For oil importers, vulnerability to oil … domestic product. Oil intensity fell in more than half the countries in every income group and in every region of the world … pass-through to consumers of increases in world prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974899
Cover Image
Oil Spills on Other Commodities
Baffes, John - 2016
This paper examines the effect of crude oil prices on the prices of 35 internationally traded primary commodities for the 1960-2005 period. It finds that the pass-through of crude oil price changes to the overall non-energy commodity index is 0.16. At a more disaggregated level, the fertilizer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747627
Cover Image
A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2017
This paper presents a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space, broadly defined as the availability of budgetary resources for a government to service its financial obligations. The database covers up to 200 countries over the period 1990-2016, and includes 28 indicators of fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950618
Cover Image
Sharing Oil Rents and Political Violence
Cordella, Tito - 2017
This paper investigates how the devolution of oil windfalls affects the likelihood of political violence. It shows that transferring large shares of oil wealth can prevent conflict, while transferring small shares can trigger it. Among the different transfer schemes, fiscal transfers (to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967487
Cover Image
Are Tobacco Taxes Really Regressive? Evidence from Chile
Fuchs, Alan - 2017
Tobacco taxes are deemed regressive, because the poorest families tend to allocate larger shares of their budget to purchase tobacco. However, as taxes also discourage tobacco use, some of the most adverse effects, including higher medical expenses, lower life expectancy at birth, added years of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961225
Cover Image
Tobacco Taxation Incidence : Evidence from the Russian Federation
Fuchs, Alan - 2018
Despite the well-known positive effects of tobacco taxes on health outcomes, policy makers avoid relying on such taxes because of their possible regressive impact. Using an extended cost-benefit analysis to estimate the distributional effect of cigarettes in the Russian Federation, this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908756
Cover Image
Does Energy Consumption Respond to Price Shocks? Evidence from a Regression-Discontinuity Design
Bastos, Paulo - 2017
This paper exploits unique features of a recently introduced tariff schedule for natural gas in Buenos Aires to estimate the short-run impact of price shocks on residential energy utilization. The schedule induces a nonlinear and non-monotonic relationship between households' accumulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973456