Monetary Policy and the Oil Market, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016 ADB Institute Series on Development Economics Series

While oil price fluctuations in the past can be explained by pure supply factors, this book argues that it is monetary policy that plays a significant role in setting global oil prices. It is a key factor often neglected in much of the earlier literature on the determinants of asset prices, including oil prices. However, this book presents a framework for modeling oil prices while incorporating monetary policy. It also provides a complete theoretical basis of the determinants of crude oil prices and the transmission channels of oil shocks to the economy. Moreover, using several up-to-date surveys and examples from the real world, this book gives insight into the empirical side of energy economics. The empirical studies offer explanations for the impact of monetary policy on crude oil prices in different periods including during the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008?2009, the impact of oil price variations on developed and emerging economies, the effectiveness of monetary policy in the Japanese economy incorporating energy prices, and the macroeconomic impacts of oil price movements in trade-linked cases. This must-know information on energy

1 Introductory Remarks: What’s behind the Recent Oil Price Drop?           Naoyuki Yoshino and Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary.- 2 Impact of Expansionary Monetary Policy on Crude Oil Prices Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary and Naoyuki Yoshino

Offers a reader-friendly treatment of the topic from both theoretical and empirical approaches

Useful for researchers and graduate students as well as those who have an interest in the energy economics

Includes several up-to-date examples of energy economics from a real world perspective