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If commercial producers or financial investors use futures contracts to hedge against commodity price risk, the arbitrageurs who take the other side of the contracts may receive compensation for their assumption of nondiversifiable risk in the form of positive expected returns from their...
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Emerging economies that are large oil producers have sizable external debt, their country risk rises when oil prices fall, and several of them have defaulted at least once since 1979. Moreover, while oil and non-oil output reduce country risk on impact and in the long-run, oil reserves reduce it...
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relationship between trade and exchange rate volatility / Christian Broda and John Romalis -- Comments: Chaiyasit Anuchitworawong …
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future oil price volatility derived from the NYMEX futures options market. Using a dynamic model of firms' investment problem …, I find that oil companies respond to changes in expected price volatility by adjusting their drilling activity by a …
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We assess the extent to which a country's external capital structure can aid in mitigating the macroeconomic impact of oil price shocks. We study two Caribbean economies highly vulnerable to oil price shocks, an oil-importer (Jamaica) and an oil-exporter (Trinidad and Tobago). From a...
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evidence for changes in persistence and in volatility of price across three well defined periods. We argue that historically … account for the increased volatility of oil price we observe in these periods …
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(2000). Stochastic volatility aries in our two-factor model as a natural consequence of production for oil and natural gas …
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the world economy. We analyze the impact of the advent of fracking on the volatility of oil prices. Our model predicts a … large decline in this volatility …
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of volatility through time. We are particularly interested in understanding whether periods of high volatility spillover … across countries. Our analysis relies both on univariate and bivariate switching volatility models. Our results indicate that … high-volatility episodes are, in general, short-lived, lasting from two to seven weeks. We find some weak evidence of …
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finance higher investment and growth; (ii) insure against aggregate shocks and reduce consumption volatility; and (iii …
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