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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Autores principales: Arezki, R, Ramey, V, Sheng, L
Formato: Working paper
Publicado: University of Oxford 2015