This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...

This paper measures China’s daily and monthly climate policy uncertainty (CPU) from Jan 2000 to Mar 2022 based on Chinese news data for the first time. Then, the nonlinear and lag impacts of the US CPU and China’s CPU on the return, volatility, correlation and tail dependence of China’s...