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Time-Varying Effects of Oil Supply Shocks on the U.S. Economy

Staff Working Paper 2012-2 Christiane Baumeister, Gert Peersman
We use vector autoregressions with drifting coefficients and stochastic volatility to investigate how the dynamic effects of oil supply shocks on the U.S. economy have changed over time. We find a substantial decline in the short-run price elasticity of oil demand since the mid-eighties.

Real-Time Analysis of Oil Price Risks Using Forecast Scenarios

Staff Working Paper 2012-1 Christiane Baumeister, Lutz Kilian
Recently, there has been increased interest in real-time forecasts of the real price of crude oil. Standard oil price forecasts based on reduced-form regressions or based on oil futures prices do not allow consumers of forecasts to explore how much the forecast would change relative to the baseline forecast under alternative scenarios about future oil demand and oil supply conditions.
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