Uncovering Long Term Relationships between Oil Prices and the Economy: A Time-Varying Cointegration Analysis

29 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2018

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Fabian Gogolin

University of Leeds - Faculty of Business

Fearghal Kearney

Queen's University Belfast - Queen's Management School

Brian M. Lucey

Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin; Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics; Abu Dhabi University - College of Business Administration; Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance

Maurice Peat

The University of Sydney; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Samuel Vigne

Trinity College (Dublin) - Trinity Business School

Date Written: September 2, 2018

Abstract

Establishing the relation between oil price movements and macroeconomic performance is of great importance for firms and policymakers, alike. Prior studies established this relation using the assumption that the long-run relation is intertemporally constant. However, there is much recent evidence demonstrating that this assumption may not hold in practice. To address this issue and go beyond the restrictive time-invariant environment, we employ the use of the time-varying cointegration framework of Bierens 2010. We present evidence of the long-run oil-economy relation evolving over the 1974-2015 period, with major events such as the Gulf War and the financialisation of commodity markets proving to be driving forces across the U.S., European and G7 economies considered.

Keywords: Marcoeconomy, oil prices ,WTI Oil , Brent Oil, long-run

JEL Classification: Q43

Suggested Citation

Gogolin, Fabian and Kearney, Fearghal and Lucey, Brian M. and Peat, Maurice and Vigne, Samuel, Uncovering Long Term Relationships between Oil Prices and the Economy: A Time-Varying Cointegration Analysis (September 2, 2018). Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 18-14, QMS Research Paper 2018/04, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3242941 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3242941

Fabian Gogolin

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Fearghal Kearney

Queen's University Belfast - Queen's Management School ( email )

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Maurice Peat

The University of Sydney ( email )

University of Sydney
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Australia

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