Coping with Oil Price Volatility
Oil is important in every economy; when its prices are high and volatile, governments feel compelled to intervene. Because there can be large costs associated with such interventions, reserve banks, central planning institutions, and think tanks in...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/08/9780518/coping-oil-price-volatility http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17539 |
| Summary: | Oil is important in every economy; when
its prices are high and volatile, governments feel compelled
to intervene. Because there can be large costs associated
with such interventions, reserve banks, central planning
institutions, and think tanks in industrial countries have
been carrying out quantitative analyses of oil price
volatility for a number of years. This report focuses on
fluctuations around trends in oil prices. It examines
measurements of oil price volatility and evaluates several
different approaches to coping with oil price volatility:
hedging, security stocks, price-smoothing schemes, and
reducing dependence on oil including diversification. It
does not deal with the impact of oil price volatility on
countries' macroeconomic performance or with
macroeconomic policy responses; these generally have more to
do with coping with higher price levels than with higher
volatility per se. The study examines oil price volatility
largely from the point of view of consumers and does not
cover the management of revenue volatility by large oil exporters. |
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