02068cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017695 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484310175 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Grigoli, Francesco. A Crude Shock : Explaining the Impact of the 2014-16 Oil Price Decline Across Exporters / Francesco Grigoli, Alexander Herman, Andrew Swiston. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (26 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The decline in oil prices in 2014-16 was one of the sharpest in history, and put to test the resilience of oil exporters. We examine the degree to which economic fundamentals entering the oil price decline explain the impact on economic growth across oil exporting economies, and derive policy implications as to what factors help to mitigate the negative effects. We find that pre-existing fundamentals account for about half of the cross-country variation in the impact of the shock. Oil exporters that weathered the shock better tended to have a stronger fiscal position, higher foreign currency liquidity buffers, a more diversified export base, a history of price stability, and a more flexible exchange rate regime. Within this group of countries, the impact of the shock is not found to be related to the size of oil exports, or the share of oil in fiscal revenue or economic activity. Mode of access: Internet Herman, Alexander. Swiston, Andrew. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/160 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/160/001.2017.issue-160-en.xml IMF e-Library