Date: 2017
Type: Article
The role of news-based uncertainty indices in predicting oil markets : a hybrid nonparametric quantile causality method
Empirical economics : Journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 879–889
BEKIROS, Stelios D., BALCILAR, Mehmet, GUPTA, Rangan, The role of news-based uncertainty indices in predicting oil markets : a hybrid nonparametric quantile causality method, Empirical economics : Journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 879–889
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A recent strand in the literature emphasizes the role of news-based economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and equity market uncertainty (EMU) as drivers of oil price movements. Against this backdrop, this paper uses a kth-order nonparametric quantile causality test, to analyse whether EPU and EMU predict stock returns and volatility. Based on daily data covering the period of 2 January 1986 to 8 December 2014, we find that, for oil returns, EPU and EMU have strong predictive power over the entire distribution barring regions around the median, but for volatility, the predictability virtually covers the entire distribution, with some exceptions in the tails. In other words, predictability based on measures of uncertainty is asymmetric over the distribution of oil returns and its volatility.
Additional information:
First published online: 6 September 2016
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/44658
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/s00181-016-1150-0
ISSN: 0377-7332; 1435-8921
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Uncertainty Oil markets Volatility Quantile causality C22 C32 C53 Q41
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