Connectedness of Energy Markets around the World during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Erdinç Akyildirim, Oguzhan Cepni, Peter Molnár*, Gazi Salah Uddin

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Abstract

This paper studies the connectedness among energy equity indices of oil-exporting and oil-importing countries around the world. For each country, we construct time-varying measures of how much shocks this country transmits to other countries and how much shocks this country receives from other countries. We analyze the network of countries and find that, on average, oil-exporting countries are mainly transmitting shocks, and oil-importing countries are mainly receiving shocks. Furthermore, we use panel data regressions to evaluate whether the connectedness among countries is influenced by economic sentiment, uncertainty, and the global COVID-19 pandemic. We find that the connectedness among countries increases significantly in periods of uncertainty, low economic sentiment, and COVID-19 problems. This implies that diversification benefits across countries are severely reduced exactly during crises, that is, during the times when diversification benefits are most important.
Original languageEnglish
Article number105900
JournalEnergy Economics
Volume109
Number of pages12
ISSN0140-9883
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2022

Keywords

  • Energy markets
  • Connectedness
  • COVID-19
  • Uncertainty

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