Tag Archives: James Hamilton

Can an Economy Learn to Live with Increasingly High Oil Prices?

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

Prof. James Hamilton of University of California recently wrote a post called Thresholds in the economic effects of oil prices. In it, he concludes As U.S. retail gasoline prices once again near $4.00 a gallon, does this pose a threat … Continue reading →

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How close a link is there between oil price shocks and recession?

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

I want to bring to the attention of readers a recent paper by James Hamilton, called Historical Oil Shocks (also here as a National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper). The paper seems to suggest an amazingly close connection between … Continue reading →

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