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| K.P. Prabheesh, Bhavesh Garg and Rakesh Padhan |
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| ''Time-varying dependence between stock markets and oil prices during COVID-19: The case of net oil-exporting countries'' |
| ( 2020, Vol. 40 No.3 ) |
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| This article provides an empirical investigation of the time-varying dependence between oil prices and stock markets in the top ten net oil-exporting countries. Using daily data focusing on COVID-19 period, we implement the DCC-GARCH to identify the dynamic dependence. Then, we apply structural break techniques to detect the shift in the dependence structure. We find that there exists a positive time-varying dependence between oil returns and stock returns during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic wherein the breakpoints mostly coincided with the emergence of oil price war and global stock market crash. Overall, results imply that declining oil prices lead to a fall in stock returns due to lower future earnings for oil companies, exhibiting a signal of reduction in aggregate demand and economic activity in oil-exporting countries. Thus, the high positive co-movement may have ill-effects on portfolio diversification, as the latter will be less effective if the asset returns are highly correlated. |
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| Keywords: COVID-19, Stock Markets, Oil Prices, Pandemic |
JEL: C5 - Econometric Modeling: General
F3 - International Finance: General |
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| Manuscript Received : Aug 30 2020 | | Manuscript Accepted : Sep 24 2020 |
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