Dependences and volatility spillovers between the oil and stock markets: New evidence from the copula and VAR-BEKK-GARCH models

Abstract

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between the oil market and stock markets from two perspectives: dependence between the crude oil market (WTI) and stock markets of the US and China, and volatility spillovers between them during 1991-2016. We further analyze structural breaks of market dependences and consider the extent of their influence on such relationships. Our vine-copula results show that the dependences between the three paired markets, WTI-US, WTI-China and US-China, vary dynamically across the six identified structural break periods. In particular, the dependence between WTI-US is stronger and more volatile than that between WTI-China during most of the periods. The dependence between US-China remains at a lower level in the earlier periods, but increases in the final period. Our VAR-BEKK-GARCH results demonstrate distinctive volatility spillovers across these periods, with varying directionality, in response to the structural changes. Overall, our results indicate that the oil market stimulates rapid and continual fluctuations in market dependences, which become manifest most acutely in the aftermath of the Financial Crisis of 2007-08, demonstrating the increasing interdependence between the oil and stock markets. Further, the growing influence of China on the dynamics of these relationships, in the period following the Great Recession, presents evidence that it begins to assume an increasingly important role in global economic recovery.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.11.007
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School
Additional Information: © 2019, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Copula model,Dependence,Multivariate GARCH model,Oil market,Stock market,Volatility spillover,Finance,Economics and Econometrics
Publication ISSN: 1873-8079
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:29
Date Deposited: 14 Jan 2019 10:31
Full Text Link: http://usir.sal ... rd.ac.uk/48965/
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2020-03-01
Published Online Date: 2019-05-07
Accepted Date: 2018-12-11
Authors: Yu, Lean
Zha, Rui
Stafylas, Dimitrios (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0326-1877)
He, Kaijian
Liu, Jia

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