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  • 标题:Does the volatility of commodity prices reflect macroeconomic uncertainty?
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  • 作者:Marc Joëts ; Valérie Mignon ; Tovonony Razafindrabe
  • 期刊名称:Document de Travail / Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
  • 出版年度:2015
  • 页码:1
  • 出版社:Paris
  • 摘要:This paper analyzes the impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on a large sample of 19 commodity markets. We rely on a robust measure of macroeconomic uncertainty based on a wide range of monthly macroeconomic and financial indicators, and we estimate a structural threshold VAR (TVAR) model to assess whether the effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on commodity price returns depends on the degree of uncertainty. Our findings show that whereas the safe-haven role of precious metals is confirmed, agricultural and industrial markets are highly sensitive to the variability and the level of macroeconomic uncertainty, respectively. In addition, we show that the recent 2007-09 recession has generated an unprecedented episode of high uncertainty in numerous commodity markets that is not necessarily accompanied by a subsequent volatility in the corresponding prices, highlighting the relevance of our uncertainty measure in linking uncertainty to predictability rather than to volatility.
  • 关键词:Macroeconomic Uncertainty ; Commodity Prices ; Threshold Vector Autoregressive Model
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