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Dependence and extreme dependence of crude oil and natural gas prices with applications to risk management

Riadh Aloui, Mohamed Ben Aissa (), Shawkat Hammoudeh and Duc Khuong Nguyen

Energy Economics, 2014, vol. 42, issue C, 332-342

Abstract: In this article, we show how the copula-GARCH approach can be appropriately used to investigate the conditional dependence structure between the crude oil and natural gas markets as well as to derive implications for portfolio risk management in extreme economic conditions. Using daily price data from January 1997 to October 2011, our in-sample results show evidence of asymmetric dependence between the two markets. The crude oil and gas markets tend to comove closely together during bullish periods, but not at all during bearish periods. Moreover, taking the extreme comovement into account leads to an improvement in the accuracy of the out-of-sample Value-at-Risk forecasts.

Keywords: Copulas; Extreme dependence measures; Crude oil; Natural gas; VaR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 C58 Q41 Q47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.12.005

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