Crude Oil and Stock Markets: Stability, Instability, and Bubbles

J. Miller and Ronald Ratti

No 810, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Abstract: We analyze the long-run relationship between the world price of crude oil and international stock markets over 1971:1-2008:3 using a cointegrated vector error correction model with additional regressors. Allowing for endogenously identified breaks in the cointegrating and error correction matrices, we find evidence for breaks after 1980:5, 1988:1, and 1999:9. We find a clear long-run relationship between these series for six OECD countries for 1971:1-1980.5 and 1988:2-1999.9, suggesting that stock market indices respond negatively to increases in the oil price in the long run. During 1980.6-1988.1, we find relationships that are not statistically significantly different from either zero or from the relationships of the previous period. The expected negative long-run relationship appears to disintegrate after 1999.9. This finding supports a conjecture of change in the relationship between real oil price and real stock prices in the last decade compared to earlier years, which may suggest the presence of several stock market bubbles and/or oil price bubbles since the turn of the century.

Keywords: crude oil; stock market prices; cointegrated VECM; structural stability; stock market bubble; oil price bubble (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pgs.
Date: 2008-08-20, Revised 2009-01-20
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Published in Energy Economics 2009

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