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The asymmetric oil price and policy uncertainty shock exposure of emerging market sectoral equity returns: A quantile regression approach

Debojyoti Das (debojyoti.d@outlook.com) and M. Kannadhasan

International Review of Economics & Finance, 2020, vol. 69, issue C, 563-581

Abstract: We examine the asymmetric impact of oil, and economic policy uncertainty shocks on the emerging markets composite sectoral equity indexes. We use the novel shock decomposition approach propounded by Ready (2018) to disentangle the oil price changes into the oil demand, supply and risk shocks. We find that the demand shocks are positively related to sectoral returns. However, the supply, risk and EPU shocks are negatively associated with sectoral returns. Additionally, the sectoral returns are mainly vulnerable to these shocks at the bearish market conditions. Further, we also investigate the asymmetric exposure of sectoral returns to these shocks, and we find that the lower demand shocks are associated with higher returns. Besides, the higher supply, risk and EPU shocks have a more intense impact on sectoral returns than otherwise. Hence, we document the evidence of the asymmetric relationship of oil and EPU shocks with sectoral returns. We believe that our results are novel and add value to the existing literature in this domain.

Keywords: Emerging markets; Oil; Stock returns; Quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 G15 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2020.06.013

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