News Shocks in Open Economies : Evidence from Giant Oil Discoveries /

This paper explores the effect of news shocks on the current account and other macroeconomic variables using worldwide giant oil discoveries as a directly observable measure of news shocks about future output ? the delay between a discovery and production is on average 4 to 6 years. We first present...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arezki, Rabah
Other Authors: Ramey, Valerie, Sheng, Liugang
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/209
Online Access:Full text available on IMF