Quantile connectedness between oil price shocks and exchange rates

Document Type

Article

Source of Publication

Resources Policy

Publication Date

6-1-2023

Abstract

Oil is an energy resource and a driver of global economic activities. The increasing need for oil amplifies its trade and places pressure on the current account balance, which causes exchange rate fluctuations. We transcend the mean-based connectedness measures to explore the oil shocks-exchange rates nexus from an asymmetric perspective. With daily data from 07-03–1996 to 22-08-2022, we analyse the quantile dynamic spillovers between oil price shocks and exchange rates of oil-exporting and oil-importing economies. We show that shock sizes shape the system returns and volatility connectedness, with lower-tailed and upper-tailed shocks having a greater influence on the system connectedness than shocks modelled at the conditional median. By demonstrating asymmetry, the findings emphasise that for a detailed comprehension of the oil shocks-exchange rates connectedness under extreme shocks, it is necessary to go beyond mean-based connectedness metrics. The implications of our findings are important for investors, policymakers, and practitioners.

ISSN

0301-4207

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Volume

83

Disciplines

Business

Keywords

Brexit, COVID-19, Exchange rates, Oil price shocks, Quantile connectedness, Quantile spillovers, Russia-Ukraine

Scopus ID

85157980255

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

no

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