TY - JOUR TT - The Impacts of Non-linear Oil Price Shocks on Saudi Savinginvestment Behavior: An Empirical Investigation AU - Algaeed, Abdulaziz Hamad PY - 2017 DA - June JF - International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues JO - IJEFI PB - İlhan ÖZTÜRK WT - DergiPark SN - 2146-4138 SP - 155 EP - 165 VL - 7 IS - 2 KW - Investment KW - Saudi Arabia KW - A Nonlinear Oil Price Shocks KW - Structural Vector Autoregressive N2 - The purpose of this paper is to analyze theoretically and empirically the effects of a non-linear oil price shocks on Saudi investment-saving behavior for the period of 1985-2015, using structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) approach. The oil price shock is calculated as SOPI, employing GARCH (1,1). Johansen’s testing procedure result asserts the existence of stable long-run relationship between private saving investment (PI), oil price shock (OIL shock), government expenditure (GOEX) and per-capita income (PERCAPITA). The findings confirm that the oil price shocks affect positively (+) private investment. The sign is as expected and significant. Moreover, capital investment takes time to absorb the shock. Nonetheless, per-capita income as a proxy for aggregate demand had the right sign and statistically significant. Government expenditure had the positive sign reflecting the crowd-in effects. Although, Emmanuel, et al. (2014), found negative impacts of oil price shocks on private investment, our results should differ in sign because this analysis is forwarded towards an oil-exporting country. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/ijefi/issue//354459 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/365630 ER -