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The Impact of Monetary Policy Surprises on Energy Prices

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  • Arabinda Basistha
  • Alexander Kurov

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This paper examines the effect of monetary policy surprises on energy prices at intraday, daily, and monthly frequencies. We measure monetary policy shocks using changes in interest rate futures prices that capture unexpected changes in the fed funds target rate. We find a significant response of energy prices to surprise changes in the fed funds target rate in an intraday window immediately following the monetary announcement. However, the accumulated responses of energy prices to monetary shocks over a period of several days after the announcement are statistically insignificant. We also use fed funds futures data to identify the contemporaneous impact of monetary policy shocks on oil prices in a monthly structural vector autoregressive (VAR) setup. We find no statistically significant effect of federal funds rate shocks on oil prices. The VAR estimates support the assumption of no contemporaneous feedback from monetary policy to energy prices. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Jrl Fut Mark 35:87–103, 2015

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  • Arabinda Basistha & Alexander Kurov, 2015. "The Impact of Monetary Policy Surprises on Energy Prices," Journal of Futures Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 35(1), pages 87-103, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jfutmk:v:35:y:2015:i:1:p:87-103
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