Purpose The authors explore the hypothesis that some movements in commodity prices are anticipated (news shocks) and can trigger aggregate fluctuations in small open emerging economies. This paper aims to discuss the aforementioned objective. Design/methodology/approach The authors build a...

The pricing dynamics of oil-based commodities are frequently influenced by reported events. Our analysis spans almost 900 oil-related events from 1978 to 2022, categorizing them based on recurring characteristics. Employing a novel bootstrap-after-bootstrap testing econometric framework, we...

Measurement errors and structural breaks are important factors affecting the forecasting accurancy of volatility in the oil futures market. To capture these key points in one uniform forecasting model, we propose the MRS-HARQ-type model by simultaneously introducing the modification of...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 dramatically disrupted the global supply of crude oil and agricultural commodities. As a consequence, the prices of oil and agricultural commodities increase substantially and many countries face the problem of high food inflation. Against...