As the world economic power shifts from the advanced G7 countries — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States — to the seven largest emerging market countries (EM7) — Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey — the vulnerability of...

The growing disintegration between the natural gas and oil prices, together with shale revolution and market financialization, lead to continued fundamental changes in the natural gas markets. To capture these structural changes, this paper considers a wide set of highly flexible time-varying...

Sovereign credit risk in developed countries was essentially non-existent prior to 2009. We find new factors suggesting that a part of the European sovereign risk premium is exogenously determined. We capture a novel phase synchronization that is associated with an increase in the cost of public...

The paper analyses the importance of supply versus demand shocks on the global oil market from 1974 to 2017, using a parsimonious structural vector autoregressive moving average (SVARMA) model. The superior out-of-sample forecasting performance of the reduced form VARMA compared to VAR...

The size of the economy-wide rebound effect is crucial for estimating the contribution that energy efficiency improvements can make to reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. We provide the first empirical general equilibrium estimate of the economy-wide rebound effect. We use a...

The Kilian and Murphy (2014) structural vector autoregressive model has become the workhorse model for the analysis of oil markets. I explore various refinements and extensions of this model, including the effects of (1) correcting an error in the measure of global real economic activity, (2)...

Recent recovery in the world oil prices and the positive performance of major oil company stocks has raised the prospects of major oil and natural gas producing states, such as Texas. High oil prices are interpreted as good news for Texas economy and the labor market. However, the impact of the...