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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Autore principale: Arezki, Rabah
Altri autori: Ramey, Valerie, Sheng, Liugang
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/209
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF