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0861 |aFB3-5/2017-50E-PDF
1001 |aBaumeister, Christiane.
24510|aIs the discretionary income effect of oil price shocks a hoax? |h[electronic resource] / |cby Christiane Baumeister, Lutz Kilian and Xiaoqing Zhou.
260 |aOttawa : |bBank of Canada, |c2017.
300 |aiii, 37 p. : |bgraphs
4901 |aBank of Canada staff working paper, |x1701-9397 ; |v2017-50
500 |a"November 2017."
504 |aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 |a"The transmission of oil price shocks has been a question of central interest in macroeconomics since the 1970s. There has been renewed interest in this question after the large and persistent fall in the real price of oil in 2014–16. In the context of this debate, Ramey (2017) makes the striking claim that the existing literature on the transmission of oil price shocks is fundamentally confused about the question of how to quantify the effect of oil price shocks. In particular, she asserts that the discretionary income effect on private consumption, which plays a central role in contemporary accounts of the transmission of oil price shocks to the U.S. economy, makes no economic sense and has no economic foundation. Ramey suggests that the literature has too often confused the terms-of-trade effect with this discretionary income effect, and she makes the case that the effects of the oil price decline of 2014–16 on private consumption are smaller for a multitude of reasons than suggested by empirical models of the discretionary income effect. We review the main arguments in Ramey (2017) and show that none of her claims hold up to scrutiny. Our analysis highlights the theoretical basis of the discretionary income effect. We also discuss improved regression-based estimates of this effect that allow for changes in the dependence on oil and gasoline imports, and we highlight the fact that alternative estimates used by policymakers involve strong simplifying assumptions."--Abstract, p. ii.
546 |aText in English, abstract in English and French.
69207|2gccst|aPetroleum industry
69207|2gccst|aMacroeconomic analysis
69207|2gccst|aIncome
7001 |aKilian, Lutz.
7001 |aZhou, Xiaoqing.
7102 |aBank of Canada.
830#0|aStaff working paper (Bank of Canada)|x1701-9397 ; |v2017-50.|w(CaOODSP)9.806221
85640|qPDF|s449 KB|uhttps://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/banque-bank-canada/FB3-5-2017-50-eng.pdf