Correlations between oil and stock markets: a wavelet-based approach

Belén Martín-Barragán, Sofia Ramos and Helena Veiga

DES - Working Papers. Statistics and Econometrics. WS from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Estadística

Abstract: In a global economy, shocks occurring in one market can spill over to other markets. This paper investigates the impact of oil shocks and stock markets crashes on correlations between stock and oil markets. We test changes in correlations at different scales with non-overlapping confidence intervals based on estimated wavelet correlations. Contrary to other approaches, this method does not need adjustment for heteroskedasticity biases on the correlation coefficients. Our results show that oil shocks affect the correlation between both markets. The evidence on the change of correlation between stock markets after an oil shock is weaker; except in some specific cases during the Kuwait war and the OPEC cutback period. Conversely, we only find weak evidence that stock market crashes change the correlation between oil and stock markets. Overall, the evidence gives support to including oil as an asset class in asset allocation strategies.

Keywords: Correlations; Financial; shocks; International; Financial; Markets; Oil; shocks; Stock; Market; Returns; Wavelets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C40 E32 F30 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03
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