Dynamics of volatility transmission between the U.S. and the Chinese agricultural futures markets

Huayun Jiang, Neda Todorova, Eduardo Roca and Jen-Je Su

Applied Economics, 2017, vol. 49, issue 34, 3435-3452

Abstract: The U.S. and China are two of the biggest players in the world agricultural market. The literature documents that volatility in the U.S. agricultural futures market spills over significantly to that of China. This article provides further insights into the spillovers from China to the U.S. as well as the time horizon and dynamics of the bidirectional spillovers through the application of a multivariate extension of the heterogeneous autoregressive model, in relation to four commodities – soybean, wheat, corn and sugar. The results confirm the existence of significant spillovers from the U.S. to China for four commodities, which are primarily generated by the shorter-term volatility components in the U.S., and provide evidence for the increasing pricing power of the Chinese market. The findings are robust against various specifications and have important investment and policy implications.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1262517

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