Influence of Oil Price Volatility of Developed Countries on Emerging Countries Stock Market Returns by Using Threshold Based Approach

Abstract

This study reveals the nonlinear relationship between oil price volatility of the developed countries and emerging stock market returns. We analyzed the effects of oil price volatility of the developed markets i.e. India, United States and United Kingdom on the emerging stock market returns. We used VAR, Granger Causality, impulse responses and logistic transition based autoregressive model (LSTR) in two groups. In group one, we considered US oil price volatility with six emerging countries and regions stock market returns i.e. France, Spain, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. In group two, we considered oil price with respect to India with the same six emerging countries stock market returns. The data covers the daily closing prices for seven years from 2011 to 2017 for emerging countries and for oil prices the data we use West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spot price of crude oil for US and India. This study helps the investors to understand the impact of oil prices of US and Indian market with respect to emerging markets and whether to identify the dependency of emerging stock markets returns on the oil prices of US and India. All the analysis was performed by using R and EVIEWS software.

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Arekar, K. and Jain, R. (2017) Influence of Oil Price Volatility of Developed Countries on Emerging Countries Stock Market Returns by Using Threshold Based Approach. Theoretical Economics Letters, 7, 1834-1847. doi: 10.4236/tel.2017.76125.

1. Introduction

Oil price volatility dynamics have significant economic impact in emerging stock market returns. Jones and Kaul [1] study the impact of oil prices on stock market returns using vector autoregressive approach (VAR). The oil prices have an impact of real economy activity include both supply and demand channels and it also affects the consumption and investment. Consumption is affected by the disposable income. As the oil price increases consumers spending power decreases and therefore it will affect the investment decisions. In this study, we analyzed the effects of oil price volatility of US and India on the different emerging stock market returns. We employed VAR, Granger Causality, impulse responses and logistic transition based autoregressive model (LSTR).

Sadorsky [2] and Papapetrou [3] found negative relationship between US and Greece stock market returns with oil prices shocks. O’Neil et al. [4] found that rise in oil prices will lead to reduce stock market prices for US, UK and France. Park and Ratti [5] considered 12 European oil importing countries. Masih et al. [6] studies the volatility impact of oil price on stock market return in Korea and the results estimated that there are the strong effects of oil price volatility on real stock market returns. Creti et al [7] identified the relationship between 25 commodities including crude oil and stocks. Choi and Hammoudeh [8] investigated the relationship between commodity price and S & P 500 index which shows the increasing correlation between all the commodities. Bwo Nung Huang [9] applied the multivariate threshold model to investigate the impact of oil price change and its volatility on economic activity. He explained that the change in oil price are the better estimators of the explain macro-economic variables then the volatility of the oil price.

Huson Joher [10] considered the existence of a no linear relationship between oil price volatility and equity market uncertainty. He concludes that some sectors are responding quickly to volatility. John Elder et al. [11] studied the effects of oil price uncertainty in Canada and their study exposes that ambiguity about oil prices incline to emphasize the negative reaction of output to positive oil shocks. Evangelia (2009) considered the connection between oil prices and economic movement in Greece during the period 1982 to 2008. Her research finds that there is a negative correlation between oil prices and economic activity during periods of rapid oil price changes and high oil price change volatility.

Guo and Kliesen [12] investigates that daily crude oil price has a negative effect on future GDP growth and other methods of the US macro economy. Zhang [13] developed nonlinear relationship between oil price shock and economic growth in Japan. Lardic and Mignon [14] studied the nonlinear term relationship between US and Europe economy. Our study provided the new understanding that how the oil price of US and Indian responds the stock market returns of emerging countries. We had used threshold autoregressive approach which is expected to add a new paradigm in the oil prices and stock market volatility relationship literature.

The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we discuss oil price volatility measures, econometrics framework and data description. In Section 3 the results were presented and discussed and in Section 4 describe the implication of the results with respect to the findings.

2. Empirical Models

Logistic transition based auto regressive model (LSTR) defined by Teravirta and Anderson [15] and Teravirta [16] estimates at which transition take place from one regimes (lower level effect of oil price volatility on India and Us market) to another( higher level effect on stock market volatility of emerging market dynamics). In this study, in group one two dynamics regimes are used first is the oil price volatility of the US market and the other stock market index and term spread is considered. The mathematical model for group 1 is as follows:

η t = θ 10 + j = 1 p θ 1 j t j + λ 1 f t + ς 1 T S t + ( θ 20 + j = 1 p θ 2 j t j + λ 2 f t + ς 2 T S t ) h ( f t ; γ , c ) + ε t (1)

where, η t is the rolling standard deviation over 12 months for respective emerging countries stock market index and f t is the transition variables i.e. oil price return volatility for US market. In emerging market stock index for each country has two regimes with respect to oil price uncertainty namely high and low volatility regimes where h ( f t ; γ , c ) is the transition function bounded by the value 0 and 1. C is considered as the threshold parameter; γ represent the speed and smoothness of the transition. The control variable term is introduced to understand the effect of external factors on the emerging stock market index.

In group two, two dynamics regimes are used first is the oil price volatility of the Indian market and the other stock market index and term spread is considered. The mathematical model for group 1 is as follows:

μ t = θ 10 + j = 1 p θ 1 j t j + λ 1 f t + ς 1 T S t + ( θ 20 + j = 1 p θ 2 j t j + λ 2 f t + ς 2 T S t ) h ( f t ; γ , c ) + ε t (2)

where, μ t is the rolling standard deviation over 25 days for respective emerging countries stock market index and f t is the transition variables i.e. oil price return volatility for Indian market. In emerging market stock index for each country has two regimes with respect to oil price uncertainty namely high and low volatility regimes where h ( f t ; γ , c ) is the transition function bounded by the value 0 and 1. C is considered as the threshold parameter; γ represent the speed and smoothness of the transition. The control variable term is introduced to understand the effect of external factors on the emerging stock market index.

Two specific forms of the transition function h ( f t ; γ , c ) are used for both the groups (see Teravirta and Anderson, 1992 and Terasvitra, 1994):

LTST 1 h 1 ( f t ; γ , c ) = ( 1 + exp ( γ ( f t c ) ) ) 1 ; γ > 0

LTST 2 h 2 ( f t ; γ , c ) = ( 1 + exp ( γ ( f t c ) 2 ) ) ; γ > 0

To test linearity against LSTR, Langrange multiplier (LM) to test the hypothesis of no-nonlinear relationship as given by Terasvitra (1994). λ 1 and λ 2 will give us the how oil price volatility affects stock market returns volatility in different regimes. To check the validity of the LSTR model we used Schwartz Information Criteria (SIC). The vector autoregression (VAR) is used for predicting the consistent time series and for analyzing the dynamic impact of random disturbances on the system of variables. An impulse response is used to identify the shock to the i-th variable not only directly affects the i-th variable but is also transferred to all of the other endogenous variables through the dynamic (lag) structure of the VAR.

Methodology

The empirical analysis in this paper is based on daily stock market returns for six emerging countries and oil price volatility for US and Indian market. The data considered from the period April, 2011 to Ferburary 2017 with 1457 daily observation for each emerging countries and regions stock market index i.e. France, Spain, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan. Data for stock market index of respectively emerging countries are obtained from Bloomberg and to measure oil price volatility we used West Texas Intermediate (WTI) spot price of crude oil. All the analysis is carried out by using R and EVIEWS software.

3. Findings

3.1. Volatility Fluctuation

From Figure 1, it is observed that for the emerging countries i.e. France, Singapore and Spain have high volatility as compared with other emerging countries. And, for the Japan there is lower level of volatility. Overall, stock market index for all emerging countries seems to be consistently higher than the US oil price because the returns of all the emerging market countries are higher than the US oil prices. And. From Figure 2, we identified that for the emerging countries and regions i.e. Japan, Taiwan and Malaysia have higher volatility as compared with other countries. The France and Singapore has a lower level of volatility with respect to oil prices of India. And overall, stock market stock market index for all emerging countries seems to be consistently higher than oil prices volatility of India expect Spain. This relationship helps us to understand the volatility pattern between US and India oil prices with emerging countries stock index.

3.2. Vector Auto Regressive Analysis

VAR analysis is divided into three parts i.e. Granger Causality and Vector Decomposition method. To understand the causal relation between the stock market returns of emerging market and oil price volatility of oil prices of US and India we use granger Casualty test.

The results from granger causality test from VAR model is reported in Table 1 and Table 2. Table 1 will represent the causal effect between oil price volatility of US and stock market index of emerging countries. Null hypothesis of no causality got rejected for the countries and regions Taiwan, Malaysia and Japan and for the remaining three countries null hypothesis of no causality do not rejected. So, oil price volatility of US market has Granger cause with the stock market index of emerging countries and regions like Taiwan, Malaysia and Japan.

Table 2 represents the causal effect between oil price volatility of India and

Figure 1. Volatility pattern between US oil price and Emerging countries and regions stock Index.

Table 1. The effect between oil price volatility of US and stock market index of emerging countries and regions.

Figure 2. Volatility pattern between India oil price and emerging countries and regions stock Index.

Table 2. Represent the causal effect between oil price volatility of India and stock market.

stock market index of emerging countries. Null hypothesis of no causality got rejected for the countries France, and Spain and for the remaining four countries null hypothesis of no causality do not rejected. So, oil price volatility of Indian market has Granger cause with the stock market index of emerging countries like France, and Spain.

3.3. Impulse Response

A shock to the i-th variable not only directly affects the i-th variable but is also transmitted to all of the other endogenous variables through the dynamic (lag) structure of the VAR. An impulse response function traces the effect of a one- time shock to one of the innovations on current and future values of the endogenous variables. The impulse response for US oil prices and oil prices of India with respect to all other emerging countries stock index are shown in Figure 3 and Figure 4.

Figure 3 and Figure 4 show the impulse response function curves of real stock returns of emerging from a one standard deviation shock of the Indian oil price volatility and stock returns of emerging countries. Mostly an impulse response function dashes the effect of a one-time shock to one of the innovations on current and future values of the endogenous variables.

In Figure 3, a one standard deviation shock to Indian oil price volatility causes significant positive response for 4 days periods in France and Spain, 5 days periods in Malaysia and 3 days periods in Singapore stock index volatility. Whereas Japan stock index volatility displays an extended negative response lastly beyond 5 days resulting the Indian oil price volatility shock. If there is one standard deviation positive change in Indian oil price, Taiwan stock return volatility will response negatively increase till two days period and after five days period, it shows positive response. One unit increase in oil price volatility, will increase the Japan index return by 6% in days 1 period, and Taiwan index return by 3% in days 3 period.

In Figure 4, a one standard deviation shock to US oil price volatility causes significant positive response for 4 to 8 days periods in France, 2 to 7 days period in Spain, 1 to 7 days period in Malaysia stock index volatility. Whereas Japan stock index volatility displays an extended negative response for 1 to 7 days periods. One unit increase in US oil price volatility causes negative response in 2 to 4 days period and 5 to 6 days period in Taiwan stock index volatility. Singapore stock index market will not show any response due to one unit shock in US oil price volatility. One unit increase in US oil price volatility, will increase the France index return by 9% and Spain index return by 3% in days 6 period.

3.4. Vector Decomposition

Variance decomposition separates the variation in oil prices of US and India with respect to the stock market index for six emerging countries into the component shocks to the VAR. Thus, the variance decomposition provides information about the relative importance of each random innovation in affecting the variables in the VAR. Table 3 and Table 4 represent the variance decomposition of oil prices of US and India in the model with stock market index of six emerging countries.

From Table 3 it is clear, US oil price volatility shows the 0.68% variation in France stock market index in period 3(i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 0.79% variation. US oil price volatility shows the 3.8% variation in Spain stock market index in period 3 (i.e.

Figure 3. Impulse response function curves of real stock returns of emerging from a one standard deviation shock of the Indian oil price volatility and stock returns of emerging countries and regions.

Figure 4. Impulse response function curves of real stock returns of emerging from a one standard deviation shock of the Indian oil price volatility and stock returns of emerging countries and regions.

Table 3. Variance decomposition of US oil price with other emerging countries and regions.

Table 4. Variance decomposition of India oil price with other emerging countries and regions.

short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 4.6% variation. US oil price volatility shows the 8.6% variation in Malaysia stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 8.7% variation. US oil price volatility shows the 16.15% variation in Singapore stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 17.5% variation. US oil price volatility shows the 35.0% variation in Taiwan stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 35.2% variation. US oil price volatility shows the 33.3% variation in Japan stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 35.6% variation. US oil prices also shows the significant variation in the stock market index of all emerging countries in both short and long run shocks. It is also observed that maximum variation occurs in Japan stock market index due to the variation in the US oil prices and minimum variation occurs in France stock market in short and long run periods.

From the above table it is clear, INDIA oil price volatility shows the 16.3% variation in France stock market index in period 3(i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 16.5% variation. INDIA oil price volatility shows the 2.9% variation in Spain stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 3.2% variation. INDIA oil price volatility shows the 12.4% variation in Malaysia stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 12.5% variation. INDIA oil price volatility shows the 29.3% variation in Singapore stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 44.6% variation. INDIA oil price volatility shows the 28.9% variation in Taiwan stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 29.8% variation. INDIA oil price volatility shows the 16.9% variation in Japan stock market index in period 3 (i.e. short run shocks) but it will increased for period 12 (in long run shock) i.e. 18.1% variation. INDIA oil prices also shows the significant variation in the stock market index of all emerging countries in both short and long run shocks. It is also observed that maximum variation occurs in Singapore stock market index due to the variation in the India oil prices and minimum variation occurs in Spain stock market in short and long run periods.

4. LSTR Model

The LSTR model gives the linearly test based on Terasvirta and Andeson, 1992 and Terasvitra, 1994 for emerging stock market index with respect to US and Indian oil price volatility. From Table 5, it is observed that for Singapore, Japan and Taiwan stock market index null hypothesis of no lineratity is rejected with respect to US oil price volatility. For Japan and Taiwan we used LSTR 2 model and for Singapore we used LSTR1. From Table 6, it is observed that for Singapore, Japan and Malaysia stock market index null hypothesis of no lineratity is rejected with respect to Indian oil price volatility. For Japna and Malaysia we used LSTR 2 model and for Singapore we used LSTR1.

LSTR Model Estimates

The LSTR estimates wer reported in Table 7 and Table 8, for US and India Oil price Voalatility. A a first step, we test linear and non-liner parts ( λ 1 and λ 2 ), which determined the relationship between US oil price volatility and emerging stock market index. In non-liner regime the Singapore stock market index is significantly positive so we can say that Singapore stock market index tends to increase, with an increase in US oil return volatility and it is also stastically sig-

Table 5. Linearity Test against LSTR Model (US oil price Volatility).

Table 6. Linearity Test against LSTR Model (Indian oil price Volatility).

Table 7. LSTR Estimates using US oil Price Volatality.

Note: The table follows the following LSTR model η t = θ 10 + j = 1 p θ 1 j t j + λ 1 f t + ς 1 T S t + ( θ 20 + j = 1 p θ 2 j t j + λ 2 f t + ς 2 T S t ) h ( f t ; γ , c ) + ε t . ***, **,* denotes statistaclly significant at 1%, 5% and 10% level respectively.

Table 8. LSTR Estimates using Indian oil Price Volatality.

Note: The table follows the following LSTR model μ t = θ 10 + j = 1 p θ 1 j t j + λ 1 f t + ς 1 T S t + ( θ 20 + j = 1 p θ 2 j t j + λ 2 f t + ς 2 T S t ) h ( f t ; γ , c ) + ε t . ***, **, * denotes statistaclly significant at 1%, 5% and 10% level respectively.

nificant. In a linear regime, Taiwan and Singapore shows the negative relationship and statistically significant.

Thirdly, it is clearly observed that Singapore retain LSTR1 form, the stock market volatility of Singapore is significantly affected if the oil price of US incredsed at ceratain threshold level. However, Japan and Taiwan return LSTR 2. Japan and Taiwan stock market returns are highly sensitive when oil return volatility falls under the lower and upper levels of the threshold estimates. Forth, the value of stock parameter γ, for Singapore stock market index is higher i.e. 46.01. Taiwan and Japan stock market index exhibits smoother transition with the γ value 8.75 and 1.42.

In non-liner regime, the Japan stock market index is significantly positive so we can say that Japan stock market index tends to increase, with an increase in Indian oil return volatility and it is also stastically significant. In a linear regime, Malaysia and Singapore shows the negative relationship and statistically significant.

Thirdly, it is clearly observed that Singapore retain LSTR1 form, the stock market volatility of Singapore is significantly affected if the oil price of US incredsed at certain threshold level. However, Japan and Malaysia return LSTR 2. Japan and Malaysia stock market returns are highly sensitive when oil return volatility falls under the lower and upper levels of the threshold estimates. Forth, the value of stock parameter γ, for Singapore stock market index is higher i.e. 41.21. Malaysia and Japan stock market index exhibits smoother transition with the γ value 4.623 and 2.142.

5. Conclusion

The findings of this study are significantly useful for the investors. For the emerging countries and regions France, Singapore and Spain show the high volatility with respect to US oil prices whereas for India Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan show the higher volatility. The findings are helpful for making an investment globally and to understand the investment pattern of all selected emerging stock market index. By using volatility threshold, investors formulate the short and long term investment plans. Oil price volatility of US market has Granger cause with the stock market index of emerging countries and regions like Taiwan, Malaysia and Japan and oil price volatility of Indian market has Granger cause with the stock market index of emerging countries like France, and Spain. There are total 23 emerging countries were dealing in the stock market, but in our study, we included only six emerging countries stock index, so this study cannot claim a global representation. Further, studies are suggested to include more emerging stock markets to gain more global market relationship with oil prices volatility.

6. Limitations

There are total 23 emerging countries which deal in the stock market. The major limitations of the study is that we included only six emerging countries but there is the further scope to considered remaining 17 emerging countries. We had also not taken into consideration oil exporting countries. Further, there is the scope to use different financial models i.e. GARCH, T GARCH and E GARCH etc to test the linearly of the stock returns.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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