Bastianin, Andrea; Manera, Matteo - 2014
We study the impact of oil price shocks on US stock market volatility. We derive three different structural oil shock … variables (i.e. aggregate demand, oil-supply, and oil-demand shocks) and relate them to stock market volatility, using bivariate … structural VAR models, one for each oil price shock. Identification is achieved by assuming that the price of crude oil reacts to …