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NONLINEARITIES AND THE MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF OIL PRICES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2011

James D. Hamilton
James D. Hamilton*
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University of California, San Diego
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Address correspondence to: James D. Hamilton, Department of Economics, 0508, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0508, USA; e-mail: jhamilton@ucsd.edu.
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Abstract

This paper reviews some of the literature on the macroeconomic effects of oil price shocks with a particular focus on possible nonlinearities in the relation and recent new results obtained by Kilian and Vigfusson [http://www-personal.umich/~lkilian/kvsubmission.pdf (2009)].

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Oil ShocksNonlinear DynamicsAsymmetric Response Oil Prices

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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 15 , Supplement S3: Oil Price Shocks , November 2011 , pp. 364 - 378
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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