Oil's importance as an energy resource and influence in the global economic system has steadily increased. 1 Especially, the increasing oil trade has placed pressure on the current payment balance and led to exchange rate fluctuations (Bal and Rath 2015). Because oil price is a widely verified source of shock for exchange rates (Ji et al. 2015; Basher et al. 2016), investigating the underlying forces and transmission mechanisms of oil shocks to exchange provides useful information to market investors and holds important implications for policy-makers and central banks. Investors can incorporate any evidence of impacts of oil shocks on exchange rates in their investment and asset allocations decisions. As for policy-makers and central banks, who are concerned about the stability of exchange rates, they can improve their understanding of the vulnerability of exchange rates to oil price shocks so more appropriate policies and regulations can be formulated. Within the related literature regarding the impact of oil prices on exchange rates, researchers apply various methodologies, such as cointegration and Granger causality (Huang and Tseng 2010), Markov-switching analysis (Beckmann and Czudaj 2013), vector autoregressive (VAR) models (