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An Empirical Investigation of Oil-Macro-Financial Linkages in Saudi Arabia

By Ken Miyajima

February 12, 2016

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Ken Miyajima. An Empirical Investigation of Oil-Macro-Financial Linkages in Saudi Arabia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed September 20, 2024
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Summary

Oil-macro-financial linkages in Saudi Arabia are analyzed by applying panel econometric frameworks (multivariate and vector autoregression) to maceoeconomic and bank-level balance sheet data for 9 banks spanning 1999–2014. Lower growth of oil prices and non-oil private sector output leads to slower credit and deposit growth and higher nonperforming loan ratios, with feedback loops within bank balance sheets which in turn dampens economic activity. U.S. interest rates are not found to be a key determinant.

Subject: Banking, Credit, Financial institutions, Financial statements, Money, Nonperforming loans, Oil prices, Prices, Public financial management (PFM), Stocks

Keywords: Bank, Bank npls, Brent crude, Credit, East Africa, Eastern Europe, Equity price, Financial statements, Global, Macro-financial linkages, Middle East, Nonperforming loans, North Africa, NPL ratio, Oil price, Oil prices, Panel vector autoregression, Price, Price growth, Private sector, Solvency risk, Stocks, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    23

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2016/022

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2016022

  • ISBN:

    9781498330329

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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