“…Yet, an increase in the oil price causes a drop in productivity, which is passed on to (i) real wages and employment; (ii) selling prices and core inflation; (iii) profits and investment, as well as stock market capitalization. The previous literature has widely investigated the relationship between oil prices and economic growth (Ferderer, 1996;Hamilton, 2003Hamilton, , 2008Kilian, 2008a;Elder and Serletis, 2010;Rahman and Serletis, 2012). This link can be understood via the classic supply-side effect according to which rising oil prices are indicative of the reduced availability of a basic input to production, leading to a reduction of potential output.…”