This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on oil prices, CO2 emissions and stock market volatility over the period January 22, 2020 – March 30, 2020 using an unrestricted VAR. We demonstrate that although the increasing number of COVID-19 infections causeda decrease in the price of...

On 12 March 2020, the sharp fell of U.S. crude oil price to 30 dollars was explained by the outspreads of coronavirus pandemic and the OPEC's inability to reach a production quota agreement. We employ the structural VAR model with time-varying coefficients and stochastic volatility (TVP-SVAR...

The current global COVID-19 pandemic is adversely affecting the oil market (West Texas Intermediate) and crypto-assets markets. This paper empirically investigates the extent to which interdependence in markets may be driven by COVID-19 effects. We fit copulas to pairs of before and after...