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Return and volatility transmission between oil price shocks and agricultural commodities
PLoS ONE
  • Zaghum Umar, Zayed University
  • Mariya Gubareva, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
  • Muhammad Naeem, University of Central Punjab
  • Ayesha Akhter, University of Central Punjab
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-1-2021
Abstract

© 2021 Umar et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This paper studies the connectedness between oil price shocks and agricultural commodities. Our sample period ranges from January 2002 to July 2020, covering the three global crises; Global Financial Crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis and Covid-19 pandemic crisis. We employ Granger causality tests, and the static and dynamic connectedness spillover index methodology. We find that the shocks in oil prices are Granger-caused mainly by price changes of grains, live cattle, and wheat, while supply shock granger causes variations mostly in grain prices. We find that, from the point of view of static connectedness, for both, price and volatility spillovers, the livestock is the largest transmitter, while the lean hogs are the major receiver. Our dynamic analysis evidences that connectedness increases during the financial crisis period. Our results are potentially useful for investors, portfolios managers and policy makers.

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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Scopus ID

85101355740

Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
Yes
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Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series
Citation Information
Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, Muhammad Naeem and Ayesha Akhter. "Return and volatility transmission between oil price shocks and agricultural commodities" PLoS ONE Vol. 16 Iss. 2 February 2021 (2021)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zaghum-umar/18/