The global benefits of low oil prices : more than meets the eye / by Robert Fay, Justin-Damien Guénette and Louis Morel.: FB3-7/2016-13E-PDF

"Between mid-2014 and early 2016, oil prices fell by roughly 65 per cent. This note documents the channels through which this oil price decline is expected to affect the global economy. One important and immediate channel is through higher expenditures, especially in net oil-importing countries. Although there is considerable uncertainty over the estimated impact, to date, these expenditures appear to have been small, because the response of investment in oil-producing countries has been negative, large and quick to materialize. This negative response has dominated the positive response of expenditures in oil-importing countries. It is also important, however, to consider how the oil price decline can improve private and public sector balance sheets, as it is expected to support private and public spending in future years. To this extent, global benefits go beyond what is captured in current GDP measures and, as such, there is more to this issue than meets the eye"--Abstract, p.ii.

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Department/Agency Bank of Canada.
Title The global benefits of low oil prices : more than meets the eye / by Robert Fay, Justin-Damien Guénette and Louis Morel.
Series title Staff analytical note, 2369-9639 ; 2016-13
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "September 2016."
Includes bibliographic references.
Text in English, abstract in English and French.
Publishing information [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada, c2016.
Author / Contributor Fay, Robert.
Guénette, Justin-Damien.
Morel, Louis.
Description ii, 9 p. : graphs.
Catalogue number
  • FB3-7/2016-13E-PDF
Subject terms Petroleum industry
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