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Declining Effects of Oil Price Shocks
Author(s) -
KATAYAMA MUNECHIKA
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of money, credit and banking
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.763
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1538-4616
pISSN - 0022-2879
DOI - 10.1111/jmcb.12041
Subject(s) - economics , oil price , trough (economics) , shock (circulatory) , deregulation , petroleum , consumption (sociology) , econometrics , oil consumption , monetary economics , macroeconomics , engineering , chemistry , medicine , social science , organic chemistry , sociology , automotive engineering
In recent years, output responses to oil price shocks have not only been weaker, but have also reached their trough earlier. This paper builds a model that incorporates a realistic structure of U.S. petroleum consumption and explores three possible explanations for the changes. The possible factors considered are (i) deregulation in the transportation industry, (ii) improved energy efficiency, and (iii) a lower degree of persistence of oil price shocks. Under realistic parameter values, the three factors play an important role quantitatively, accounting for half of the reduction in the largest impact on output of an oil price shock over time.