“…Macroeconomic factors have been considered by Hamilton (1983), Bernanke et al (1997), Hamilton (2003) and Barsky and Lutz (2004). How supply and demand imbalances, along with the movements in the business cycle, impact on oil prices has been investigated in depth (Kilian, 2006, 2007, Askari and Krichene, 2008, Kilian, 2008, Kaufmann, 2011. Heath (2016) provides a contemporary study on the macroeconomic factors that drive oil prices, showing that measures of real economic activity forecast oil futures prices and, most notably, that real economy shocks have a resulting impact on oil prices.…”