The Effects of Disaggregate Oil Shocks on the Aggregate Expected Skewness of the United States

Autor: Xin Sheng, Rangan Gupta, Qiang Ji
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Risks, Vol 11, Iss 11, p 186 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-9091
DOI: 10.3390/risks11110186
Popis: We examine the impact of the global economic activity, oil supply, oil-specific consumption demand, and oil inventory demand shocks on the expected aggregate skewness of the United States (US) economy, obtained based on a data-rich environment involving 211 macroeconomic and financial variables in the quarterly period of 1975:Q1 to 2022:Q2. We find that positive oil supply and global economic activity shocks increase the expected macroeconomic skewness in a statistically significant way, with the effects being relatively more pronounced in the lower regime of the aggregate skewness factor, i.e., when the US is witnessing downside risks. Interestingly, oil-specific consumption demand and oil inventory demand shocks contain no predictive ability for the overall expected skewness. With skewness being a metric for policymakers to communicate their beliefs about the path of future risks, our results have important implications for policy decisions.
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