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Oil Price Shocks and Bond Risk Premia: Evidence from a Panel of 15 Countries

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  • Iania, Leonardo

    (Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/LFIN, Belgium)

  • Lyrio, Marco
  • Nersisyan, Liana

    (Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/LFIN, Belgium)

Abstract

We study the effect of oil price shocks on bond risk premia. Based on Baumeister and Hamilton (2019), we identify the different sources of oil price shocks using a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model of the global market for crude oil. These structural factors are then used as unspanned factors in an affine term structure model based on the representation of Joslin et al. (2014). This is done for a total of 15 countries. Bond risk premia of net oil-exporting countries show a reaction to the structural shocks which is often statistically significant and in line with the expectation. For oil-importing developed countries, mainly the reaction to economic activity shocks is statistically significant and with the expected sign. The results for oil-importing developing countries are most of the time not statistically significant or run counter what one would expect. Among the unspanned factors, global economic activity explains most of the variability in bond risk premia. Finally, a historical decomposition around the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis shows a variety of patterns in the evolution of bond risk premia.

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  • Iania, Leonardo & Lyrio, Marco & Nersisyan, Liana, 2023. "Oil Price Shocks and Bond Risk Premia: Evidence from a Panel of 15 Countries," LIDAM Discussion Papers LFIN 2023002, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain Finance (LFIN).
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    Oil prices shocks ; affine term structure models ; bond risk premia;
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    • C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy

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