Did Unexpectedly Strong Economic Growth Cause the Oil Price Shock of 2003–2008?

Journal of Forecasting - Tập 32 Số 5 - Trang 385-394 - 2013
Lutz Kilian1,2, Bruce L. Hicks3
1CEPR, London, UK
2Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
3Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

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ABSTRACTRecently developed structural models of the global crude oil market imply that the surge in the real price of oil between mid 2003 and mid 2008 was driven by repeated positive shocks to the demand for all industrial commodities, reflecting unexpectedly high growth mainly in emerging Asia. We evaluate this proposition using an alternative data source and a different econometric methodology. Rather than inferring demand shocks from an econometric model, we utilize a direct measure of global demand shocks based on revisions of professional real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecasts. We show that forecast surprises during 2003–2008 were associated primarily with unexpected growth in emerging economies (in conjunction with much smaller positive GDP‐weighted forecast surprises in the major industrialized economies), that markets were repeatedly surprised by the strength of this growth, that these surprises were associated with a hump‐shaped response of the real price of oil that reaches its peak after 12–16 months, and that news about global growth predict much of the surge in the real price of oil from mid 2003 until mid 2008 and much of its subsequent decline. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Journal of Forecasting

Tập 32 Số 5

385-394

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