BARLET, M.; CRUSSON, L. - Département des Études Économiques d'Ensemble (D3E), … - 2007
The two oil shocks of the 1970s reduced the GDP growth rate. Since that period, sudden oil price increases have been considered as a major source of economic slowdown. We estimate VAR models and Markov-Switching models to evaluate the impact of oil price increases on French growth. Our results...