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Revisiting the safe haven role of Gold across time and frequencies during the COVID-19 pandemic
The North American Journal of Economics and Finance
  • Carlos Esparcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha
  • Francisco Jareño, University of Castilla-La Mancha
  • Zaghum Umar, Zayed University
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-23-2022
Abstract

This research empirically evaluates the potential diversification benefits of Gold during the COVID-19 pandemic period, when including it in equity-based asset allocation strategies. This study proposes minimum VaR portfolios, with monthly rebalance and different wavelet scales (short-run, mid-run and long-run), doing both an in-sample and out-of-sample analysis. We find much more unstable weights as the frequency of the decomposition becomes lower, and strong evidence of the outperformance of the mid-run decompositions over the rest of active management strategies and the passive management of buy and hold the variety of single equity indices. Thus, we may shed some light on the role of Gold as a safe haven when properly filtering aggregated data.

Publisher
Elsevier
Disciplines
Keywords
  • MODWT,
  • ADCC-GARCH,
  • COVID-19,
  • Gold,
  • Stock markets
Scopus ID
85127244042
Indexed in Scopus
Yes
Open Access
No
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2022.101677
Citation Information
Carlos Esparcia, Francisco Jareño and Zaghum Umar. "Revisiting the safe haven role of Gold across time and frequencies during the COVID-19 pandemic" The North American Journal of Economics and Finance (2022) p. 101677 - 101677
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/zaghum-umar/53/