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Is the Influence of Oil Shocks on Economic Policy Uncertainty Fading?

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  • Adrangi, Bahram

    (University of Portland, Oregon, U.S.A)

  • Chatrath, Arjun

    (University of Portland, Oregon, U.S.A)

  • Maitra, Debasish

    (Indian Institute of Management Indore (IIM Indore), Madhya Pradesh, India)

  • Sengupta, Anirban

    (Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya, Bodh Gaya, India)

Abstract

Anecdotal evidence indicates that the influence of crude oil shocks on US economic performance and, by extension, economic policy uncertainty is in decline. While existing studies present mixed evidence on the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and structural oil shocks, they fail to assess any time variation in this relationship. We examine the temporal nature of the influence of three structural oil shocks, oil supply shocks, global aggregate demand shocks, and shocks due to oil market-specific demand, on categorical economic policy uncertainty indexes from 1986 to 2023. We find that out of three oil shocks, only oil market-specific demand shocks negatively and significantly affect the US policy uncertainty over high-uncertainty regimes, with monetary policy uncertainty being the most influenced. At the same time, the impact of the other two shocks, oil supply shocks and aggregate demand shocks on EPU, is found to be fading. The oil shocks-EPU relationship exhibits regime dependencies with higher impact during the high volatile regime. Also, the role of partisan conflict in influencing the oil shocks-EPU relationship is established specifically in EPU subcategories relating to government expenditures. Hence, this paper uncovers interesting dynamics of the oil shocks-EPU relationship, such as regime dependencies, time-varying relationship, the importance of partisan conflict, and the fading influence of global oil supply shocks and oil shocks due to aggregate demand in the global economy.

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  • Adrangi, Bahram & Chatrath, Arjun & Maitra, Debasish & Sengupta, Anirban, 2024. "Is the Influence of Oil Shocks on Economic Policy Uncertainty Fading?," American Business Review, Pompea College of Business, University of New Haven, vol. 27(2), pages 488-524, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:ris:ambsrv:0112
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    Keywords

    Structural Oil Shock; Economic Policy Uncertainty; Partisan Conflict;
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    JEL classification:

    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy

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