Tail Dependence of Commodity Futures Returns in the Agricultural and Energy Sectors

Agnieszka Lach

Roczniki (Annals), 2024, vol. 2024, issue 3

Abstract: The goal of this research was to examine tail dependence structures between selected commodity futures returns. Tail dependence, called also extremal dependence, was evaluated for the pairs of commodities coming from the same sector (energy or agricultural). The study covers the years 2018-2023, embracing the COVID-19 pandemic and the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war. To achieve the goal, bivariate dynamic models were applied to percentage log returns of commodity futures. Marginal distributions were described using the ARMA-GARCH models. Joint distributions were constructed using the symmetrized Joe- Clayton copula, which allowed to model asymmetric dependence in the tails of a distribution. Time variation of the copula parameters, here equal to tail dependence coefficients, was described using the evolution equations [Patton 2006]. In the energy sector, the dependence in both tails of analyzed distributions was relatively strong, dynamic and higher in the lower tail than in the upper tail. On the contrary, the agricultural sector lacks common patterns of tail dependency. This feature of the agricultural sector creates an opportunity for investors or risk managers to build well-diversified portfolios.

Keywords: Financial Economics; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.348657

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