The impact of oil price uncertainty on GCC stock markets

Abdullah Alqahtani, Tony Klein and Ali Khalid

Resources Policy, 2019, vol. 64, issue C

Abstract: This paper investigates the dynamics of the co-movement of GCC stock market returns with global oil market uncertainty, using an ARMA-DCC-EGARCH and time varying Student-t copula models. Empirical results demonstrate that oil uncertainty has significant and time varying impacts on the GCC stock returns. The GCC stock returns are found to be negatively affected by oil market uncertainty for almost the entire period under examination. More interestingly, we find that the impact of oil price uncertainty differs across GCC member states and allows for grouping. The results also show that the stock markets of Oman and Bahrain are relatively less sensitive to the oil uncertainty factor, thus offering investors and portfolio managers different investment options and portfolio diversification opportunities across GCC members.

Keywords: Time-varying copulas; Dynamic conditional correlations; Crude oil; Stock index; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C58 F37 G17 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2019.101526

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