The Impacts of the Infectious Disease Epidemic on the Permanent Volatility of Precious Metal and Crude Oil Futures Markets: A Long-Term Perspective

Yue Shang, Xiaodan Chen, Yifeng Zhang, Yu Wei and Dehua Shen

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2021, vol. 2021, 1-12

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to identify the quantitative impacts of the infectious disease pandemic on the permanent volatility of precious metal and crude oil futures from a long-term perspective by using a recently constructed Infectious Disease Equity Market Volatility Tracker (ID-EMV) to capture the epidemic severity and with a novel mixed data sampling GARCH (GARCH-MIDAS) method. Different from the extant literature only focusing on the short-term influences of the COVID-19 epidemic on commodity futures market, this paper shows that the infectious disease pandemic does have significant and positive impacts on the permanent (long-term) volatilities of precious metal and crude oil futures markets lasting for at least up to 12 months. In addition, these specific impacts on crude oil futures are greater than those on precious metal futures. Finally, we find that the infectious disease epidemic has larger impacts on gold (WTI oil) futures than those on silver (Brent oil) futures. All these findings are robust after controlling the negative influences of lagged long-run realized volatility in commodity futures markets.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1155/2021/2800671

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