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News Analysis
Oil Prices and the US Dollar
C.P. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh.

The depreciation of the US dollar has been closely bound up with the movement of oil prices, as world oil trade is typically denominated in dollars. Yet this relationship may now be under threat as the dollar continues to depreciate and the US economy tips into recession. This article examines how oil prices have changed with different numeraires, and considers the implications for the future of the oil-dollar nexus.
  

March 14, 2008.

 
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