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Essays On The Effects Of Oil Price Shocks And Monetary Shocks On Labor Reallocation, Mohamad Badih Karaki
Essays On The Effects Of Oil Price Shocks And Monetary Shocks On Labor Reallocation, Mohamad Badih Karaki
Wayne State University Dissertations
The debate regarding the asymmetric effects associated with oil and monetary shocks on the economy has revived interest in analyzing the channels of transmission that generate asymmetries in the response of economic activity to these shocks. This dissertation examines the role of the allocative channel in the transmission mechanism of oil shocks and monetary shocks on economic activity. Using methods by Kilian and Vigfusson (2011b), we analyze the impact of oil and monetary shocks on job creation and job destruction in manufacturing industries.
We found that an unanticipated positive oil price shock triggers costly reallocation of labor across sectors and …
Essays On The Impact Of Oil Price Shocks On The Macroeconomy, Latika Gupta Lagalo
Essays On The Impact Of Oil Price Shocks On The Macroeconomy, Latika Gupta Lagalo
Wayne State University Dissertations
ABSTRACT
ESSAYS O THE IMPACT OF OIL PRICE SHOCKS O THE
Advisor: Dr. Ana María Herrera
Major: Economics
Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
MACROECOOMY
by
LATIKA GUPTA LAGALO
December 2011
This dissertation analyzes the relationship between oil price and industrial production.
use recently developed methods and techniques to investigate the functional form and
structural stability of the relationship between oil prices and industrial production. In my
first chapter, I use both slope-based tests and impulse response based tests to provide
evidence of nonlinearity in the response of U.S. industrial production to oil price shocks
My second essay further empirically assesses the …