Access Type

Open Access Dissertation

Date of Award

January 2011

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Department

Economics

First Advisor

ANA MARIA HERRERA

Abstract

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 presence (or absence) of asymmetry in

the response of industrial production to real oil price shocks using a sample of 18

industrialized economies using various nonlinear transformations of the price of oil. In

my third essay I examine the impact of demand and supply shocks in the crude oil marke

on industrial production in the U.S. as opposed to treating oil price shocks as exogenous.

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