Financial technology stocks, green financial assets, and energy markets: A quantile causality and dependence analysis

Aviral Tiwari, Emmanuel Abakah, Xuefeng Shao, TN-Lan Le and Matthew Ntow Gyamfi

Energy Economics, 2023, vol. 118, issue C

Abstract: With the development of Industry 4.0 and the urgency of transitioning to a low-carbon economy, fintech and environmentally friendly financial instruments have been widely employed because they have played a crucial role in restoring investor confidence in the financial services sector since the global financial crisis in 2008. They not only help investors diversify their portfolios to hedge against risks and enhance returns, but they also help to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. In this study, we analyze the connections among financial technology stocks, green financial assets, and energy markets using nonparametric causality-in-quantile and cross-quantilogram approaches based on the financial contagion theory. We explore whether the performance of fintech prices across booms and busts affects the prices of eco-friendly assets and energy market prices. Our results indicate that in the short run, fintech is highly directionally predictable in all markets except that of green bonds in the lower quantile. Additionally, in the bullish state, the predictability of all lag lengths is negative. Thus, price movements in fintech markets contribute to the vulnerability of the price levels of renewable and non-renewable energy stocks, green bonds, green equities, and sustainable development. Because financial contagion is closely related to asset pricing, portfolio allocation, risk measurement, and monetary policy, the findings of this paper will be informative to investors, portfolio managers, and policy makers.

Keywords: Quantile predictability; Fintech; Renewable and nonrenewable energy; Green bonds; Causality-in-quantiles; Cross-quantilogoram correlation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C22 D53 O13 Q42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106498

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