The study investigated the effect of oil price shocks on the economies of four selected oil-exporting African countries from the period of the first quarter of 1980 to the fourth quarter of 2018 using a global vector autoregression. After carrying out all the preliminary tests such as the unit...

This paper develops a 9-dimensional SVAR to investigate the sources of the U.S. business cycle. We extend the standard set of identified shocks to include unexpected changes in commodity prices. Our main result is that commodity price shocks are a very important driving force of macroeconomic...