Although a lot of empirical research has studied the relationship between changes in oil prices and economic activity, it is surprising that little research has been conducted on the relationship between oil price shocks and the large Newly Industrialized Economies(NIEs).
Therefore, this paper modifies the procedure of Kilian and Park(2009) and investigates how explicit structural shocks that characterize the endogenous character of changes in oil prices affect thre elarge NIEs'stock-market returns, in order to fill this gap. From the empirical analysis, we find that the impact of oil price shocks on stock prices in the selarge NIEs is mixed,
partly in contrast to the effects on the U.S. and developed countries' stock markets. This resultis also consistent with the previous empirical findings that the NIEs' stock markets are “partially
integrated” with theotherstockmarketsandoilpriceshocks.