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Explaining the Time-varying Effects Of Oil Market Shocks On U.S. Stock Returns

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  • Claudia Foroni
  • Pierre Guérin
  • Massimiliano Marcellino

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This paper documents time-variation in the relation between oil price and U.S. equity returns based on both reduced-form and structural analyses. Our reduced-form analysis suggests that a positive correlation between equity returns and oil price has emerged starting from the financial crisis. Based on our structural analysis, we find that oil-specific demand shocks have had positive effects on the U.S. stock market since 2008 as opposed to oil supply shocks, which have no large effects on stock re turns. We also show that the time variation in the parameters of the structural VAR is very well explained by the level of the U.S. short-term interest rate and shifts in consumer confidence. Keywords: Stock Returns, Oil Market Shocks, Time-varying Parameter VAR. JEL Classification Code: G12, Q43, C32.

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  • Claudia Foroni & Pierre Guérin & Massimiliano Marcellino, 2017. "Explaining the Time-varying Effects Of Oil Market Shocks On U.S. Stock Returns," Working Papers 597, IGIER (Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research), Bocconi University.
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    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • Q43 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Energy and the Macroeconomy
    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models

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