The impact of oil shocks in a small open economy New-Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for an oil-importing country : the case of South Africa

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Hollander, Hylton
Gupta, Rangan
Wohar, Mark E.

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This article studies the effects of foreign (real) oil price shocks on key macroeconomic variables for South Africa: a net-importer of oil. We develop and estimate a small open economy New-Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with a role for oil in consumption and production. The substitutability of oil for capital and consumption goods is low, import price pass-through is incomplete, domestic and foreign prices and wages are sticky, and the uncovered interest rate parity condition holds imperfectly. Foreign real oil price shocks have a strong and persistent effect on domestic production and consumption activities and, hence, are a fundamental driver of output, inflation, and interest rates in both the short- and long-run. Oil price shocks also generate a trade-off between output and inflation stabilization. As a result, episodes of endogenous tightening of monetary policy slow the recovery of South Africa’s real economy. Our findings go further to suggest an important role for oil prices in predicting South African output during and after the recession that followed the 2008 global financial crisis.

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Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model, Oil shocks, Small open economy, South Africa (SA)

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Hylton Hollander, Rangan Gupta & Mark E. Wohar (2019) The Impact of OilShocks in a Small Open Economy New-Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Modelfor an Oil-Importing Country: The Case of South Africa, Emerging Markets Finance and Trade,55:7, 1593-1618, DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2018.1474346.