Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data Modeling
Crude oil is an indispensable resource for the world economy and European Union (EU) countries are strongly dependent on oil imports. In a framework defined by generally positive correlations between oil and stock prices, the paper investigates the relationship between financial companies’...
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| author | Alexandra Horobet Georgiana Vrinceanu Consuela Popescu Lucian Belascu |
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| description | Crude oil is an indispensable resource for the world economy and European Union (EU) countries are strongly dependent on oil imports. In a framework defined by generally positive correlations between oil and stock prices, the paper investigates the relationship between financial companies’ stock prices and crude oil price using a sample of major financial companies headquartered in the EU. The link between stock prices and oil price risk is modelled using a set of macroeconomic variables that includes local stock market indices, the EUR/USD exchange rate, the oil imports dependency, inflation rate, and global volatility indices. We employ panel data as the base econometric model and an ARDL extension that is more appropriated for our research objectives. Our findings show that the EU financial sector is pervasively exposed to oil price changes over the long-run and this exposure is a component of financial companies’ exposure to real economy risk factors, which points towards the key role of the financial sector in the EU economy in transmitting systemic shocks. At the same time, we detect signs of a different behavior of market investors over the short-versus the long-run concerning the valuation of financial companies’ stock prices in relation to oil price and other macroeconomic variables, which raises distressing challenges for financial authorities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2f9ea4f3a9a5478b9504c0bfd03539a92022-12-22T02:20:40ZengMDPI AGEnergies1996-10732019-10-011221407210.3390/en12214072en12214072Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data ModelingAlexandra Horobet0Georgiana Vrinceanu1Consuela Popescu2Lucian Belascu3Department of Business and Economics, Faculty of International Business and Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Business and Economics, Faculty of International Business and Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Business and Economics, Faculty of International Business and Economics, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 010374 Bucharest, RomaniaDepartment of Management, Marketing and Business Administration, Faculty of Economic Sciences, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, 550024 Sibiu, RomaniaCrude oil is an indispensable resource for the world economy and European Union (EU) countries are strongly dependent on oil imports. In a framework defined by generally positive correlations between oil and stock prices, the paper investigates the relationship between financial companies’ stock prices and crude oil price using a sample of major financial companies headquartered in the EU. The link between stock prices and oil price risk is modelled using a set of macroeconomic variables that includes local stock market indices, the EUR/USD exchange rate, the oil imports dependency, inflation rate, and global volatility indices. We employ panel data as the base econometric model and an ARDL extension that is more appropriated for our research objectives. Our findings show that the EU financial sector is pervasively exposed to oil price changes over the long-run and this exposure is a component of financial companies’ exposure to real economy risk factors, which points towards the key role of the financial sector in the EU economy in transmitting systemic shocks. At the same time, we detect signs of a different behavior of market investors over the short-versus the long-run concerning the valuation of financial companies’ stock prices in relation to oil price and other macroeconomic variables, which raises distressing challenges for financial authorities.https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/21/4072oil pricesstock pricespanel data analysisardlfinancial sector |
| spellingShingle | Alexandra Horobet Georgiana Vrinceanu Consuela Popescu Lucian Belascu Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data Modeling Energies oil prices stock prices panel data analysis ardl financial sector |
| title | Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data Modeling |
| title_full | Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data Modeling |
| title_fullStr | Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data Modeling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data Modeling |
| title_short | Oil Price and Stock Prices of EU Financial Companies: Evidence from Panel Data Modeling |
| title_sort | oil price and stock prices of eu financial companies evidence from panel data modeling |
| topic | oil prices stock prices panel data analysis ardl financial sector |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/21/4072 |
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