Not All Regions Are Alike: Evaluating the Effect of Oil Price Shocks on Local and Aggregate Economies

June 6, 2018

Using a sample of 48 contiguous U.S. states for the period 1973-2013, we study how oil price shocks influence state-level economic growth. The analysis incorporates (1) a structural decomposition of the supply and demand factors that drive the real price of crude oil; (2) heterogeneity of states in terms of their production and consumption of […]

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