Impact of crude oil price shocks on industrial output, inflation and exchange rate: evidence from five emerging Asian economies

The present study estimates the long-run relationship and impact of oil price shock on industrial production, inflation, and exchange rate of the selected fast-emerging Asian economies namely China, India, South Korea, Singapore and Japan. The study employs auto regressive distributed lag model, structural vector auto regression model, variance decomposition and impulse response function to examine the same. The ARDL model revealed the presence of cointegrating relationship between the macroeconomic variables of Asian economies and the global crude oil price. The impulse response function and variance decomposition analysis indicates the oil price fluctuations not having a significant impact on the given macroeconomic variables of the Asian economies taken under study. The study suggests that the Asian economies should implement policies to attract more FDI and promote the foreign sector. The governments should be more watchful while regulating the price level that may arise with a surge in oil price.