Oil price volatility and the macroeconomy

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Ferderer, JP
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Recent theoretical work suggests that oil price shocks may have an adverse impact on the macroeconomy, not only because they increase the level of oil prices, but also because they raise oil price volatility. This paper provides empirical support for this proposition by showing that oil price volatility, measured by monthly standard deviations of daily oil prices, helps to forecast aggregate output movements in the U.S. Moreover, part of the asymmetric relationship between oil price changes and output growth found in previous studies can be explained by the economy's response to oil price volatility.
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