Oil price and its shocks matter for economic vitality and firms’ operations and strategies for the long-term and short-term. The plethora of evidence in the literature has failed to fill the gap in investigating oil’s impact on short-term needs for businesses. We attempt to fill in this...

Oil price and its shocks matter for economic vitality and firms’ operations and strategies for the long-term and short-term. The plethora of evidence in the literature has failed to fill the gap in investigating oil’s impact on short-term needs for businesses. We attempt to fill in this...