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Impact of oil price volatility on Gulf Cooperation Council stock markets' return

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  • Ibrahim A. Onour

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This paper investigates the short and long‐term determinants of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets' volatility. Since GCC countries are major suppliers of oil in world energy markets, their stock markets are likely to be susceptible to change in oil prices. Given that change in oil prices influence observable factors in GCC economies, we show in this paper that unobservable speculative factors drive short term stock market returns. The influence of oil price change on GCC stock markets returns is evidenced in the long‐term.1 Long term is defined here as the period of time required for the effect of oil price changes to work out its way to influence major macroeconomic indicators that influence profitability of firms traded in GCC stock markets.

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  • Ibrahim A. Onour, 2007. "Impact of oil price volatility on Gulf Cooperation Council stock markets' return," OPEC Energy Review, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, vol. 31(3), pages 171-189, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:opecrv:v:31:y:2007:i:3:p:171-189
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0076.2007.00182.x
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    1. Josef Pavlata & Petr Strejček & Peter Albrecht & Martin Širůček, 2021. "The Empirical Linkage between Oil Prices and the Stock Returns of Oil Companies," European Journal of Business Science and Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics, vol. 7(2), pages 186-197.
    2. Abid, Ilyes & Goutte, Stéphane & Guesmi, Khaled & Jamali, Ibrahim, 2019. "Transmission of shocks and contagion from U.S. to MENA equity markets: The role of oil and gas markets," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
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    8. Umut Halaç & Fatma Dilvin Taşkın & Efe Çağlar Çağlı, 2013. "The Turkish Stock Market Integration with Oil Prices: Cointegration Analysis with Unknown Regime Shifts," Panoeconomicus, Savez ekonomista Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia, vol. 60(4), pages 499-513, June.
    9. Tahsin Saadi Sedik & Oral H. Williams, 2012. "Do Gulf Cooperation Countries' equity markets waltz or tango to spillovers?," Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(2), pages 213-227, April.
    10. Tahsin Saadi Sedik & Mr. Oral Williams, 2011. "Global and Regional Spillovers to GCC Equity Markets," IMF Working Papers 2011/138, International Monetary Fund.

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