This paper examines whether the proliferation of new index products, such as commodity-tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs), amplified the volatility transmission channel introduced by financialization. This paper focuses on the volatility spillover effects among crude oil, metals, agriculture,...

GARCH-jump models of metal price returns, while allowing for sudden movements (jumps), apply the same specification of the jump component in both ‘bear' and ‘bull' markets. As a result, the more frequent but relatively small jumps that occur in both bear and bull markets dominate the...

This paper studies the common jump dynamics in natural gas futures and spot markets within a bivariate autoregressive jump intensity-GARCH framework (BARJI-GARCH). We particularly examine the role of weather as a short-run demand factor and inventory as a short-run supply factor in explaining...

This paper studies conditional correlated jump dynamics in foreign exchange returns using a new bivariate jump model with autoregressive jump intensities. Using daily data of German Mark against British Pound and Japanese Yen against the U.S. dollar, we find currency return correlations are...