Oil prices and financial stress: A volatility spillover analysis

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2015-07-01
NAZLIOĞLU, ŞABAN
Soytaş, Uğur
Gupta, Rangan
This paper examines whether there is a volatility transmission between oil prices and financial stress by means of the volatility spillover test. We employ WTI crude oil prices and Cleveland financial stress index for the period 1991-2014 and divide the sample into pre-crisis, in-crisis, and post-crisis periods due to the downward trend in oil price in 2008. The volatility model estimations indicate that oil prices and financial stress index are dominated by long-run volatility. The volatility spillover causality test supports evidence on risk transfer from oil prices to financial stress before the crisis and from financial stress to oil prices after the crisis. The impulse response analysis shows that the volatility transmission pattern has similar dynamics before and after the crisis and is characterized by higher and long-lived effects during the crisis. Our results have implications for both policy makers and investors, and for future work.

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Ş. NAZLIOĞLU, U. Soytaş, and R. Gupta, “Oil prices and financial stress: A volatility spillover analysis,” ENERGY POLICY, pp. 278–288, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/39298.