Determinants of asymmetric return comovements of gold and other financial assets
Journal article
Authors | Poshakwale, Sunil S. and Mandal, Anandadeep |
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Abstract | Using conditional time-varying copula models, we characterize the dependence structure of return comovements of gold and other financial assets (stocks, bonds, real estate and oil) during economic expansion and contraction regimes. We also investigate which key macroeconomic and non-macroeconomic variables significantly impact the asset return comovements using a two stage Markov Switching Stochastic Volatility (MSSV) framework. Our results show that the non-macro variables have significant influence on the return comovements. We find that gold is an inappropriate hedge against interest rate changes for real-estate and oil-based portfolios, while for bond portfolios, gold offers a good hedge against inflation uncertainty. We also provide evidence that the “flight to safety” phenomenon is due to the implied volatility of the stock market, rather than the observed stock market uncertainty. Finally, we forecast the asset return comovements and examine their economic significance. We show that a dynamic MSSV model which includes the macroeconomic and non-macroeconomic variables yields superior forecast of future asset return comovements when compared with a multivariate conditional covariance model. |
Keywords | Gold; Forecasting; Asset return comovements; Markov Switching stochastic volatility model |
Year | 2016 |
Journal | International Review of Financial Analysis |
Publisher | Elsevier |
ISSN | 10575219 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2016.08.001 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621531 |
hdl:10545/621531 | |
Publication dates | Oct 2016 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 31 Mar 2017, 11:17 |
Rights | Archived with thanks to International Review of Financial Analysis |
Contributors | Cranfield University and University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/946z5/determinants-of-asymmetric-return-comovements-of-gold-and-other-financial-assets
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