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Oil Price Changes And Unemployment Rate In The U.S. And Chile, Agamani Maity
Oil Price Changes And Unemployment Rate In The U.S. And Chile, Agamani Maity
Master's Theses
Abstract
There is a recurring question in theoretical, empirical and policy work is what the effects of higher oil prices are on the country’s macroeconomic aggregates. Empirical evidence in support of the view that fluctuation in the economy due to the interaction of macroeconomic variables is caused by oil price was based on inappropriate econometric models. These studies do not capture the composition of the price of oil that is affected by the exogenous oil shocks and has an indirect or direct impact on the macroeconomic aggregates. In this study, we decompose the change in oil prices into three structural …