Large Oil Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from Saudi Arabia

Authors

  • Waheed Abdulrahman Banafea Institute of Public Administration, Department of Economics and Budget, P.O.Box 205 Riyadh 11141, Saudi Arabia
  • Abdelaziz Abdelmegid Ali Institute of Public Administration, Department of Economics and Budget, P.O.Box 205 Riyadh 11141, Saudi Arabia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.12784

Keywords:

Large oil shocks, asymmetric effects, economic growth, VAR, Saudi Arabia

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the impact of large oil shocks on economic growth in Saudi Arabia, using a standard VAR model and a Markov-switching heteroscedastic regime, by using a quarterly data from 1981Q1 to 2019Q4. The results indicated that there were three large negative oil shocks, 1986Q1, 2008Q4, and 2014Q4, but there was only one large positive shock in 1990Q3. The impulse response and variance decomposition analysis show that both large negative and positive oil shocks have positive impacts on economic growth in Saudi Arabia, although only large negative shocks are statistically significant. Furthermore, large oil shocks only have a significant positive impact on economic growth comparing with normal oil shocks.

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Published

2022-03-20

How to Cite

Banafea, W. A., & Ali, A. A. (2022). Large Oil Shocks and Economic Growth: Evidence from Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 12(2), 268–275. https://doi.org/10.32479/ijeep.12784

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Vol. 12 No. 2 (2022)

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