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The macroeconomic determinants of commodity futures volatility: Evidence from Chinese and Indian markets

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  • Mo, Di
  • Gupta, Rakesh
  • Li, Bin
  • Singh, Tarlok

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We examine the macroeconomic determinants of the volatility of commodity futures (including agricultural commodity futures, metal futures and oil futures) in two emerging commodity markets – China and India. The macroeconomic variables used include both domestic and international macroeconomic variables that gauge economic environment, monetary policy and financial market information. We use a recently proposed GARCH-MIDAS model which jointly incorporates the daily price volatility and low-frequency macroeconomic variables. The model decomposes the volatility series into short- and long-run components, thereby enabling us to test whether the macroeconomic variables can determine the long-run variance. We find that there exists a long-run volatility component in the commodity futures, and most of the tested low-frequency macroeconomic variables are positively related to the long-run variance of commodity futures. Our results suggest that both domestic and international macroeconomic information plays an important role in determining the price volatility of the emerging commodity futures.

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  • Mo, Di & Gupta, Rakesh & Li, Bin & Singh, Tarlok, 2018. "The macroeconomic determinants of commodity futures volatility: Evidence from Chinese and Indian markets," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 543-560.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecmode:v:70:y:2018:i:c:p:543-560
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2017.08.032
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    Keywords

    Macroeconomic determinants; Volatility; Commodity futures; Emerging markets; GARCH-MIDAS model;
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    JEL classification:

    • E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E47 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
    • G17 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Financial Forecasting and Simulation
    • Q02 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Commodity Market

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