Abstract
This paper examines the existence of dynamic spillover effects across petroleum based commodities and among spot-futures volatilities, trading volume and open interest. Realized volatilities of spot-futures markets are used as inputs to estimate a VAR model following Diebold and Yilmaz (2014, 2015) and distinguish dynamic spillovers in total and net effects. Results reveal the existence of large and time-varying spillovers among the spot-futures volatilities and across petroleum-based commodities when examined pairwise. In addition, speculative pressures, as reflected by futures trading volume, and hedging pressures, as reflected by open interest, are shown to transmit large and persistent spillovers to the spot and futures volatilities of crude oil and heating oil-gasoline markets, respectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 104-118 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | International Review of Financial Analysis |
| Volume | 52 |
| Early online date | 25 May 2017 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2017 |
Keywords
- Dynamic spillovers
- Spot and futures markets
- Petroleum markets
- Trading volume
- Open interest