Oil prices, policy uncertainty and asymmetries in inflation expectations

Emerald - Tập 46 Số 2 - Trang 324-334 - 2019
Khandokar Istiak1, Md Rafayet Alam2
1Department of Economics and Finance, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, USA
2Department of Finance and Economic, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible asymmetric response of inflation expectations to oil price and policy uncertainty shocks.Design/methodology/approachThe authors used the test of asymmetric impulse responses proposed by Kilian and Vigfusson (2011) to explore the issue of asymmetry.FindingsUnlike other studies that assume symmetric effects, this study finds asymmetric effects of oil price and policy uncertainty on inflation expectations for positive and negative shocks and for pre- and post-financial-crisis periods. In particular other things being same, a same magnitude oil price shock has greater effect on inflation expectations in post-crisis period than in pre-crisis period. Moreover, in post-crisis period a positive increasing oil price shock has greater effect on inflation expectations than a negative decreasing oil price shock.Practical implicationsThe paper concludes that FED’s greater focus on output stabilization since financial crisis has made inflation expectations less anchored and a sudden surge in oil price may quickly trigger inflation through inflation expectations.Originality/valueExploring the issue of the possible asymmetric effects of oil price and economic policy uncertainty on inflation expectations is a relatively new topic (as other studies only assumed symmetry and did not investigate the possible asymmetry in this regard).

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