The impact of oil price shock of 2014 on the exchange rate in Algeria : vector autoregressive model

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The objective of this paper is to analyze the effects of oil price shock on exchange rate of the Algerian dinar versus US dollar through an empirical analysis using a VAR Model (Vector Autoregressive Model) based on monthly data from June 2012 to December 2016.

The findings showed that oil prices exert a significant effect on exchange rate.

A 1% decrease in oil price would lead to depreciate the Algerian Dinar of about 0.10% against US Dollar.

The Granger Causality Test results indicate that there is a unidirectional causality running from oil price to exchange rate.

This is consistent with the literatures that a decrease in oil price will depreciate the exchange rate.

In fact, low oil prices generally provokes a large depreciation of exchange rates in oil-exporting countries.

This evidence is clearly established in the Algerian case.