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Crude Oil Prices: What is the economic effect?

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November 18, 2014

Do lower crude oil prices stimulate the global economy? Will low gasoline and heating oil prices increase consumption, or will the economic impact be a largely negative one? Our studio guest Claudia Kemfert of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) tells us more.