Spillovers Between Food and Energy Prices and Structural Breaks
Autores
Guglielmo Maria Caporale
Alanoud Al-Maadid
Fabio Spagnolo
Nicola Spagnolo
Tipo
Artículo
Journal
International Economics
Páginas
1-28
Fecha
29-06-2016
Resumen

This paper estimates a bivariate VAR-GARCH(1,1) model to examine linkages between food and energy prices. The adopted framework is suitable to analyse both mean and volatility spillovers, and also allows for possible parameter shifts resulting from four recent events, namely: 1) the 2006 food crisis, 2) the Brent oil bubble, 3) the introduction of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) policy, and 4) the 2008 global financial crisis. The empirical findings suggest that there are significant linkages between food and both oil and ethanol prices. Further, the four events considered had mixed effects, the 2006 food crisis and 2008 financial crisis leading to the most significant shifts in the (volatility) spillovers between the price series considered.

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