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ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 45, Issue -, Pages 313-323Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2014.08.001
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Oil price shocks; Pass-through Disaggregated consumer price indices; Vector autoregression
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This paper evaluates the degree of pass-through from oil price shocks to disaggregate U.S. consumer prices. We find significantly positive effects of the oil price shock only on energy-intensive CPIs, which imply that significantly positive, though quantitatively small, response of the total CPI is mainly driven by substantial increases in prices of energy-related commodities. Unexpected changes in the oil price may result in decreases in the budget for non-energy commodities, if the demand for energy is inelastic (Edelstein and Kilian, 2009). Decreases in the demand for non-energy commodities will then result in limited influences on prices of those goods, which is consistent with our empirical findings. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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