1. Oil Price Shocks and Real GDP Growth: Testing for Non-linearity.
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Jiménez-Rodríguez, Rebeca
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UNITED States economy ,ECONOMIC development ,GROSS domestic product ,ECONOMETRICS ,ECONOMIC indicators - Abstract
This paper presents evidence of a non-linear relationship between real GDP growth and oil price changes for the US economy. We also argue that this non-linearity is not merely due to the use of data from the mid-1980s onwards, as most authors, so far, seem to believe. In fact, we find the existence of non-linearity with the use of data earlier than 1984, and even before 1977. Furthermore, we question that the non-linear transformations of oil prices proposed in the literature are the most appropriate ones for reflecting such non-linearity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2009
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