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OIL PRICE SHOCKS, INFLATION, AND CHINESE MONETARY POLICY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

Yunqing Wang ,
Qigui Zhu  and
Jun Wu
Yunqing Wang*
Affiliation:
Shanghai Finance University
Qigui Zhu
Affiliation:
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Jun Wu
Affiliation:
Shanghai Finance University
*
Address correspondence to: Yunqing Wang, School of International Finance, Shanghai Finance University, Room 705, East Sub-building, Guanghua Tower, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China; e-mail: wodewyq@sina.com.
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Abstract

This paper proposes a New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the Chinese economy incorporating the demand of oil to study the effects of oil price shocks on the business cycle. The model answers several questions, including how monetary policy should respond to the disturbances from such shocks, and whether monetary authorities should use core inflation or headline inflation including oil price inflation as the monetary policy rule. The contributions could be summarized as follows: First, the model reveals that the oil transmission mechanism is determined by the nominal inertia, income effect, and the portfolio allocation effect. Second, both noncore inflation monetary policy and core inflation monetary policy that are simultaneously pegged to oil prices fluctuations are inferior to the monetary policy purely pegged to core inflation. Our findings suggest that the monetary policy should focus on core inflation instead of headline inflation.

Keywords

Oil Price ShocksDSGE ModelMonetary Policy Rules

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Macroeconomic Dynamics , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 2019 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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Footnotes

We are thankful for the useful comments from the editor and two referees. This work is supported by the Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (15CJY064), Project of Humanities and Social Sciences for the Youth in Ministry of Education of China (14YJC790129), Project of Scientific Research in Shanghai Finance University (SHFUKT15-01) and Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China (14ZDA013).

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