 Predictive power of oil prices on CDS spread dynamics of oil-producing countriesChristoph Wegener, Tobias Basse, Stefano Maiani and Tam Huu Nguyen Energy Economics, 2025, vol. 145, issue C Abstract: This paper employs predictive regressions to explore the predictability of sovereign Credit Default Swap (CDS) spread dynamics of relevant oil-producing countries. By incorporating oil prices and additional control variables, we predict the rate of CDS spread changes for Brazil, the UK, Malaysia, Norway, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the US, and Venezuela. Our findings reveal that (i) the empirical coefficients of determination (R2) indicate low in-sample predictability for our entire period of analysis (2010–2024), the R2 increases markedly when dividing the analysis period into more relevant sub-samples (2010–2016 and 2016–2024); (ii) oil prices are not significant predictors for the full period but become significant in many regressions within sub-samples; (iii) for countries where oil prices are significant in both sub-samples, the coefficient sign changes from negative to positive, suggesting that in more recent years, rising (falling) oil prices signal increasing (decreasing) geopolitical risk, positively (negatively) influencing CDS spreads. Keywords: Oil prices; Fiscal stability; Predictive regressions (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:eneeco:v:145:y:2025:i:c:s0140988325001999 DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108375 Access Statistics for this article Energy Economics is currently edited by R. S. J. Tol, Beng Ang, Lance Bachmeier, Perry Sadorsky, Ugur Soytas and J. P. Weyant More articles in Energy Economics from Elsevier |
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