Understanding the Crude Oil price: How important is the China factor?

Xiaoyi Mu, Haichun Ye

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    Abstract

    This paper employs monthly data on China's net oil import from January 1997 to June 2010 to assess the role of China's net import in the evolution of the crude oil price. Based on a vector autoregression (VAR) analysis, we find that the growth of China's net oil import has no significant impact on monthly oil price changes and there is no Granger causality between the two variables. The historical decomposition indicates that shocks to China's oil demand have only played a small role in the oil price run-up of 2002-2008. We also calculate the price changes implied by China's net oil import growth from a longer-term supply and demand shift perspective. doi: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol32-No4-4

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)69-91
    Number of pages23
    JournalEnergy Journal
    Volume32
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2011

    Keywords

    • NESTED MODELS
    • TESTS
    • ACCURACY

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