E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
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Revisiting the Macroeconomic Impact of Oil Shocks in Asian Economies
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic impact of oil shocks in four of the largest oil-consuming Asian economies, using a structural vector autoregressive model. We identify three different types of oil shocks via sign restrictions: an oil supply shock, an oil demand shock driven by global economic activity and an oil-specific demand shock. -
International Transmission of Credit Shocks in an Equilibrium Model with Production Heterogeneity
Many policy-makers and researchers view the recent financial and real economic crises across North America, Europe and beyond as a global phenomenon. Some have argued that this global recession has a common source: the U.S. financial crisis.