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Oil and the World Economy : Some Possible Futures
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ISBN: 1475586647 1475540310 1475539975 1283866730 1475588356 9781475539974 9781475586640 Year: 2012 Volume: WP/12/256 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund,

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This paper, using a six-region DSGE model of the world economy, assesses the GDP and current account implications of permanent oil supply shocks hitting the world economy at an unspecified future date. For modest-sized shocks and conventional production technologies the effects are modest. But for larger shocks, for elasticities of substitution that decline as oil usage is reduced to a minimum, and for production functions in which oil acts as a critical enabler of technologies, GDP growth could drop significantly. Also, oil prices could become so high that smooth adjustment, as assumed in the model, may become very difficult.

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