We investigate the behavior of commodity futures risk premia in China. In the presence of retail-dominance and barriers-to-entry, the term structure and momentum premia remain persistent, whereas hedging pressure, skewness, volatility and liquidity premia are distorted by time-varying margins...

How do oil price movements affect sovereign spreads in an oil-dependent economy? I develop a stochastic general equilibrium model of an economy exposed to co-moving oil price and output processes, with endogenous sovereign default risk. The model explains a large proportion of business cycle...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmanın amacı, son 10 yıldır değişmekte olan uluslararası finansal yapının temel dinamiklerinin, hisse senedi piyasalarının volatilitesi üzerindeki etkisini belirlemektir. Bu amaçla emtia fiyatları, yatırımcıların risk iştahı, küresel ticaret hacmi...

When stock markets are less liquid or illiquid, investors are expected to require compensation for taking the risk of not being able to sell quickly. Many studies have documented the existence of the co-movements (commonality) of market liquidity in equity markets as a priced factor. The primary...

This paper studies how the extreme price co-movement of commodity futures indicates industrial production (IP) growth. In this regard, we model synchronized movements and large price changes into one measure by characterizing upside and downside price extremes. We find that the derived price...

We find that gold has not performed particularly well compared to other assets. However, there is a place for gold-related assets in institutional portfolios separate from commodities and energy equities. The role for gold lies in its diversification and macroeconomic hedging benefits.We examine...

In this paper, we use a bivariate structural VAR to investigate risk spillovers from the cryptocurrency market to standard financial markets. We investigate the effects of cryptocurrency shocks on key financial markets, including the stock, bond, gold, and foreign exchange markets. The results...

edging short gamma exposure requires trading in the direction of price movements,thereby creating price momentum. Using intraday returns on over 60 futures on equities,bonds, commodities, and currencies between 1974 and 2020, we document strong “marketintraday momentum” everywhere. The...

Sustainable finance, as a distinct category of finance, entails the introduction of environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into financial decision-making. Previous work at the international level such as the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and the Global Compact...

This paper examines the impact of the exchange rate, oil price and gold price on the Kuwaiti stock market using a wavelet analysis, namely, cross-wavelet coherency and partial cross-wavelet coherency. This method is used to test for nonlinear causality and decompose the data into various time...