Title: The long run dynamic of the Dutch disease phenomenon: a SVAR approach

Authors: Fakhri Issaoui; Talel Boufateh; Ghassen El Montasser

Addresses: ESEN, Université de la Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia ' ESC de Tunis, Université de la Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia ' ESC de Tunis, Université de la Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia

Abstract: This paper studies the dynamic effect of oil rents on the industrial added value in a sample of countries with different development levels. Using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model, we tested the effect of a real shock and a nominal shock on the variables of the model. The main obtained results are three. First, we confirmed that the Dutch disease (DD) problem is a short-term phenomenon that takes place each time when there is a shock on oil rents. Second, the ephemeral nature of the phenomenon confirms the neoclassical assumption stating that the effect of nominal shocks on real variables is only short term. Third, the effect of long-term real shock on oil rents is positive for all countries which score interdependence between industry on the one hand and oil rents on the other.

Keywords: Dutch disease; oil rents; industrial added value; long run; SVAR model; structural vector autoregressive; nominal shocks; real shocks.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCEE.2013.056266

International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 2013 Vol.3 No.1/2, pp.43 - 63

Received: 27 Feb 2013
Accepted: 09 Jun 2013
Published online: 05 Sep 2013 *

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